(((PICS))) OWS: The ""Cleaning"" of Zuccotti Park

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Images and article snip http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/nyregion/police-begin-clearing-zuccotti-park-of-protesters.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=global-home|from the NYT>:

Hundreds of New York City police officers cleared Zuccotti Park of the Occupy Wall Street protesters early Tuesday, arresting dozens of people there after warning them that the nearly two-month-old camp would be “cleared and restored” before the morning and that any demonstrator who did not leave would be arrested.
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Over the next two hours, dozens of protesters left the park, while a core group of about 100 dug in around the food area. Many locked arms and defied police orders to leave. By 3 a.m., dozens of helmet-clad officers, watched over by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, closed in on the remaining protesters. They pulled them out one protester at a time and handcuffed them. Most were walked out without incident...

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About 200 supporters of the protesters arrived early Tuesday after hearing that the park was being cleared. They were prevented from getting within a block of the park by a police barricade. There were a number of arrests after some scuffles between the two sides, but no details were immediately available. After being forced up Broadway by the police, some of the supporters decided to march several blocks to Foley Square...

Images and captions from news.daylife.com:

An arrested Occupy Wall Street protester screams from a police van on November 15, 2011 in New York. Police evicted the protesters from Zuccotti Park. Hundreds of police in riot gear dismantled the Occupy Oakland camp Monday, evicting and arresting protesters in the second such US move in as many days as authorities get tough against the two-month-old protest movement.

A protester affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement is arrested outside Zuccotti Park during an unannounced raid by the New York City Police Department in New York, in the early hours of November 15, 2011. Police wearing helmets and carrying shields evicted protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement early on Tuesday from the park in New York City's financial district where they have camped since September.

A protester affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement yells at the police outside Zuccotti Park during an unannounced raid by the New York City Police Department in New York, in the early hours of November 15, 2011. Police wearing helmets and carrying shields evicted protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement early on Tuesday from the park in New York City's financial district where they have camped since September.

A New York City police officer scuffles with Occupy Wall Street protesters after they were evicted from Succotti Park on November 15, 2011 in New York. Hundreds of police in riot gear dismantled the Occupy Oakland camp Monday, evicting and arresting protesters in the second such US move in as many days as authorities get tough against the two-month-old protest movement.

A large truck with items from Zuccotti Park drives away as New York City officials clear the 'Occupy Wall Street' protest from the park in the early morning hours of November 15, 2011 in New York. Police flooded into the New York cradle of the US anti-Wall Street movement early November 15, driving out demonstrators and tearing down the tent camp in what officials said was a temporary eviction. The surprise crackdown at the birthplace of the movement, launched after similar evictions in other cities, signaled a tougher line by US authorities towards the two-month old protests against Wall Street and Washington elites.

[bananas]

1. k&r nt

[liberal N proud]

2. squashing The Constitution

[eShirl]

3. jesus

look at his face, so out-of-control:

[Magoo48]

4. This pic is worth a million words...

[Marblehead]

6. iconic

[Canuckistanian]

8. To Serve and Protect.....

the 1%

[xchrom]

5. recommend

[deminks]

7. NYPD - Servants of the 1%

One thing you learn about 'trash', it comes back in bigger quantities than you just took out. And no matter how much you remove, you will always find more right where you thought you 'cleaned'. You need to learn that if you're gonna be a servant.

[City Lights]

9. K&R

x(

[leveymg]

10. Thus ends the first chapter of the nonviolent 99% uprising in the U.S. What comes next?

[TBF]

11. Thanks for the pics - very important to document the actions

of the police state. Does anybody in the world (besides fundy fruitcakes) still think that the US is a democracy?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. 'If the mayor & Wall St think this is just about a park, then they dont have clue about what's next'

--Michael Moore, via Twitter