50+ arrest from wall street protest
18 December 2011 More than 50 anti-Wall Street protesters have been arrested
after they tried to climb over a fence around a church car park to establish a
new encampment. The demonstrators used a wooden ladder to scale the chain-link
fence and enter the car park owned by Trinity Church, an Occupy Wall Street
spokesman said. Police could not immediately say how many people were held, but
Gideon Oliver, president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers
Guild, put the number at about 55, including between five and 10 clergy. The
remaining demonstrators marched through Manhattan on Saturday towards the house
of the Trinity Church rector, but were turned away by police. Later, as they started
to move toward midtown, some of the demonstrators were hemmed in by lines of
police and police on motorcycles tried to disperse protesters who were in the
middle of streets.
"We are unstoppable. Another world is possible," and "Whose
street? Our street," were among the chants from the protesters, who
blocked some streets as they marched. The remainder of the group, several dozen
protesters, held signs in Times Square into the evening. The Occupy movement
began with protesters taking over a park in New York in September to draw
attention to economic inequality and a financial system they say is unfairly
skewed toward the wealthy. Protests and encampments spread to cities throughout
the US as well as abroad.
Occupy camps in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and a number of other
cities have been shut down in recent weeks in operations that resulted in
hundreds of arrests and raised questions about the movement's future.
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