OWS Zucotti Park

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Livestream here:

http://www.ustream.tv/theother99#utm...medium=9488285

http://occupystreams.org/item/occupy...bal-revolution

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Someone really ought to let the NYPD know that wearing riot gear to evict unarmed grad students from their tents really make them come across as pussies.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45299622/ns/us_news-life/

Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan was filled, but demonstrators were not allowed to bring tents, tarps, generators and camping equipment, WNBC reported.

"Small backpacks are allowed," an NYPD chief bellowed through a bullhorn as demonstrators filed back into the plaza after a New York judge upheld the city's dismantling of the encampment.

Protesters' First Amendment rights don't entitle them to camp out indefinitely in the plaza, ruled New York City Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman as he denied a motion by demonstrators seeking to re-establish their camp. (Read his ruling here.)

"Even protected speech is not equally permissible in all places and at all times," Stallman ruled.

Police cleared out protesters in a nighttime sweep early Tuesday. The judge upheld the city's effective eviction of the protesters after an emergency appeal by the National Lawyers Guild.

The protesters had been camped out in privately owned Zuccotti Park since mid-September. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he ordered the sweep because health and safety conditions had become "intolerable" in the crowded plaza.





Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said around 200 were arrested overnight, including dozens who tried to resist by linking arms at the center of Zuccotti Park or chaining themselves together with bicycle locks.

NBC New York's Jonathan Dienst, who was at the scene in Lower Manhattan, reported that he had counted a further 40 arrests along Broadway.

A few protesters, who appeared to resist and shove officers, were thrown to the ground and placed in handcuffs, he reported.





After the raid, thousands of dollars worth of computer and camera equipment, tents and sleeping bags could be seen piled in the center of the park by sanitation workers. Police said in a statement that the items would be brought to a sanitation garage where they could be collected later.

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Originally Posted by Cardus

A park rule prohibits people from camping out overnight. This fact was either conveniently or ignorantly -- hard to tell here -- omitted in this thread.

Or you're either ignorantly or conveniently - hard to tell with you - bringing up something settled from 40 days ago. Which is it?

The park is "private", but is open, by contract with the city (it's a tradeoff park, a builder got an extra high building for creating the park) 24 hours. Being in the park is legal 24 hours.

The rule should have been enforced from the beginning.

But it was not. In fact, early on, Bloomberg said he supported the protesters. Bloomberg said camping is fine. Until, you know, at 1:00am this morning, it was not.

In fact, today they posted new signs outside Zucotti Park, that the park closes at 10:00pm. Surrounded by police and barriers right now. No tents permitted, no lying down, etc.

Yet the Mayor has announced that protesters may occupy the park 24 hours a day. They are there right now. The library is back. There is food delivered.

You see, the law and the Constitution doesn't apply to Mayor Bloomberg. He only gets to apply it at his discretion.

Like when multiple press people are illegally prevented from observing Mayor Bloombergs' "legal" attack on the protesters at 1:00am, and press people are arrested illegally for being present while working.

I walked around the park a few weeks ago. There were more people walking around the square than were in it, from what I could tell.

And when the miscreants left the park to protest, they never obtained a permit. Again, this should have been enforced from the beginning.

Intellectually and asthetically, the "movement" was a farce and a disgrace.

Yet it has grown, with several thousand down there tonight. Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg. A lawyer gave you a restraining order today at 6:00am, you ignored it, then you shopped judges until you found another one to overturn it around noon. The original complaint still stands - see you in court. And Zucotti Park is occupied 24 hours a day, still.