Good Morning Zuccotti Park

“People will have to remove all their belongings and leave the park,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said,

“After it’s cleaned, they’ll be able to come back. But they won’t be able to bring back the gear, the sleeping bags,
that sort of thing will not be able to be brought back into the park.

On Thursday evening, a couple dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park grabbed brooms
and buckets and set about sweeping up the site. For the last two days, they had begun to work harder
than usual to keep the park clean and attractive, putting their brooms to work, filling up buckets of
water at nearby restaurants and even, according to one protester, planting flowers.

The protesters spent $3,000.00 on cleaning up the park.

Live From Occupy Wall Street: Cleaning Postponed, Huge Crowd Euphoric

http://gothamist.com/
 
Whoever decided to do this crackdown and then lost their nerve, thus energizing the movement the day before a huge series of worldwide protest events, has some seriously bad timing.
 
“People will have to remove all their belongings and leave the park,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said,

“After it’s cleaned, they’ll be able to come back. But they won’t be able to bring back the gear, the sleeping bags,
that sort of thing will not be able to be brought back into the park.

On Thursday evening, a couple dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park grabbed brooms
and buckets and set about sweeping up the site. For the last two days, they had begun to work harder
than usual to keep the park clean and attractive, putting their brooms to work, filling up buckets of
water at nearby restaurants and even, according to one protester, planting flowers.

The protesters spent $3,000.00 on cleaning up the park.

Live From Occupy Wall Street: Cleaning Postponed, Huge Crowd Euphoric

http://gothamist.com/

So does protesting give them the right to squat on private property?
 
Occupy Trenton (New Jersey)
October 14, 2011
Back at home after a stint on the national campaign trail-
Gov. Christie spent an hour Thursday in the driveway of a Mount Laurel home.

Thursday, October 13, 2011
Participants of the Occupy Trenton protest may stay, but their tents, tables and most other vestiges
of their eight-day encampment across the street from the State House must be gone by Friday,
the State Police confirmed Thursday night.

Friday, October 14, 201
Participants aligned with the Occupy Wall Street protest have removed their tents from New Jersey's
World War II Memorial in Trenton after police told them they could not keep any "permanent structures" at the site.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/10/occupy_trenton_participants_ha.html

NJ State Police have given the Occupy Trenton protesters their finally warning to remove
everything from the Protest site. At 12:00pm a DOT truck will be coming to confiscate
everything that remains on site.

".... these occupiers have been given orders by the state police to dismantle their site. "
One of the organizers, Edward, just said in a live feed, "People are waiting for us to get it together.
I am going to be here.

After repeatedly complying with State Police orders to remove more and more items from the
Occupy Trenton site, the NJ State Police came into the camp and removed all the protesters
supplies, media equipment, and gear. The only thing left behind was some of the signs which
the protesters recorded being confiscated.

"Around 5PM a large group of officers came out and told the protesters then needed to vacate
with equipment from the site."

The protesters asked if they could wait until 8PM so they could get a consensus vote
at the General Assembly and the police said that is way too long.

Instead, the police have told them they have an hour to comply.
The protesters are remaining on site in defiance of the order to vacate

Earlier today, around 7:30 AM in the morning, the NJ State police came out to the Occupy Trenton
protest site and threatened people of arrest and equipment confiscation.

Police steal Occupy Trenton supplies, signs, and media equipment #OccupyWallStreet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtx6g6nQ81g

NJ State Police moved in at 12:00PM today and took all of the Occupy Trenton supplies, signs,
and media equipment - including protest signs, fliers, computers, cameras, tripods, back packs,
and all other personal property

Emails from the occupation:
Thursday: 7:44 PM: "State Police came and presented us with a letter said to be from the
department of military and veterans saying we could not have any items here that weren't
in our personal possession. We had to dismantle the media tent we had up and get rid
of everything (all donations) or they would dismantle and do it themselves. There was a
vote to dismantle the structure but we are still occupying!"
Thursday 7:47 PM: "Oh, and no one was arrested! The Police were very cordial
and just doing they're jobs which we respect. I also meant to mention, they read the
letter out loud to who was here, but refuse to give us a copy of the letter.

One Policeman said it was because the attorney general said not to."

Curious to learn that the Attorney-General may be involved. We know whom she reports to.
Curious also that the head of the commission which maintains this World War II memorial site
had previously visited Occupy Trenton and had seemed OK with them staying there as long
as they kept the site clean and did no damage.

These young people were off to a good start. They have support in the community.
People who own property there are willing to lend a hand with sanitation needs.
Now, they have none of the things that are helping Occupy Wall Street to succeed.

Does'nt it speak well, of the town police and the State police and the protesters,
that there was no violence, and no arrests?

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/
 
So does protesting give them the right to squat on private property?

No. This does: "Although the park is technically private property, Brookfield is required to allow public access to it 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The city made this a requirement in 1968, when the original owners, U.S. Steel, wanted to build more stories at 1 Liberty than zoning allowed. They got the extra floors and the public got a park on private property."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...000_in_govt_handouts_since_911_terrorist.html
 
“He was just trying to help. The cops were pretty violent. They were the ones actually elbowing people,”
Rivera-Pitre says. “The reason I didn’t get arrested was this guy [from the photo] was one of the
guys around me. I think he was the one who started screaming, ‘Save him! Save him!’”

http://www.salon.com/topic/occupy_wall_street/

There was any number of protesters in blue shirts that interfered with officers,
trying to rescue Rivera-Pitre from the brutal beating he took from Cardona.
Any one of them could have put an elbow out!

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/17/occupy_wall_streets_struggle_for_non_violence/singleton/

Another question was raised about a drinking container that went flying.

NYPD White Shirt Under Investigation For Punching Protester

(That protester is free and his lawyer is trying to keep him free.)

The actions of the NYPD officer seen punching protester Felix Rivera-Pitre in the face
during last Friday's Occupy Wall Street protests are officially under investigation.
According to the Guardian, the New York Civilian Complaint Review Board is looking into
Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona's use of force. "We have several ongoing investigations
involving police interactions with protesters, said the CCRB's spokeswoman, Linda Sachs.
Presumably included are the actions of Deputy Inspector Tony Bologna, who pepper-sprayed
seemingly innocent women during protests on September 24.

Cardona is also implicated in an incident shortly before Bologna's pepper-spraying,
as video shows him lunging over orange netting acting as a NYPD barricade to grab
a female protester by the throat, seemingly unprovoked.

http://gothamist.com/2011/10/18/nypd_white-shirt_under_investigatio.php

Anthony Bologna, NYPD Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Protesters, May Be Docked 10 Vacation Days

"Officials said investigators found that the inspector ran afoul of Police Department rules
for the use of the spray." (According to protocol, pepper spray should only be used to control
a suspect who's resisting arrest or for protection, and in cases of
"disorder control" -- but only by a specially trained officer.)

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/anthony_bologna.php

Rivera-Pitre was "sucker-punched in the jaw with sufficient force to knock him to the ground," Kuby wrote.

(Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona, 47 --hauls off full force and wham! hit the protester right in the face.
In newspaper reports- Cardona kept punching, until other officers hauled him away.)

Rivera-Pitre, a former dancer who lives at the YMCA in Jamaica, Queens, said he was walking on William St.
with other protesters when he "shot the cop a look."

"The cop just lunged at me full throttle and hit me on the left side of my face," he told The Gothamist.
"It tore my earring out."
(In the film clip, Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona- pulls at Rivera-Pitre over and over again)

Rivera-Pitre said the crowd helped him get away but he was speaking out because there was lots of blood -
and he is HIV-positive.

"That cop should get tested," he said.

Felix Rivera-Pitre slow motion struck by NY Police Occupy Wall Street 10/14/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu-JWvGr_Ac

This clip put the scenario within the original context- (a bit Loud)

NYPD Cop Punches Protester at Occupy Wall Street, 10/14/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcJ31g0ScQ

Cardona makes a huge show of holding his face. Why is he faking?
 
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne claimed that Rivera-Pitre instigated the confrontation by attempting
to elbow Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona in the face, and authorities
want to charge Rivera-Pitre with attempted assault on a police officer, obstructing governmental justice,
resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
(How is Rivera-Piter assaulting an officer while he is being pummeled by punches,
and flat on his back?)

We witnessed Cardona minutes after the incident, rubbing his shoulder and conversing
with the officer who stood next to him as he punched Rivera-Pitre, and it did not appear
that his eyes or face were injured.

Was Cardona wiping something from his eye?

http://gothamist.com/2011/10/15/nypd_alleges_protester_attempted_to.php

Felix Rivera-Pitre, Protester Sought for Arrest After Being Punched by Cop,

Inspires March to D.A.'s Office

C.S. Muncy, who witnessed the event and took the shot above, says, "The protester refused to step back
as the scooters moved forward into the crowd. Eventually he is pushed back, by about five feet. I'd had a
few brief interactions with Cardona (white shirt, Major's rank on his collar) but he never really seemed to get
in my way or try to keep me from shooting. The next thing I see he just yanks his arm back, and slams the kid.
The kid goes down, he keeps hitting until a few other cops pull him loose (the rest push us violently back.
At some point I get poked pretty hard in the chest with one of those nightsticks). At some point after,
an empty (or partially empty) water bottle is thrown, and catches Cardona. I can't imagine it hit very hard,
but he makes a big show of it, and pulls away from the crowd and back towards the other cops."

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/felix_rivera-pitre_occupy_wall_street_nypd.php


NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne has said in a statement that cops are looking to arrest Rivera-Pitre for "attempted assault on a police officer, obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct." Kuby says, "There's an Open 61 on him, which means, it's not a warrant, no judge has passed on it, but it's generated by the police to the police."

?!?!?!
 
Occupy wall St 10.26.11 macdougal St

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ehrQ5rSJo

Occupy Wall St occupies the set of Gossip Girl TV series

Protesters marched in solidarity with Occupy Oakland.
Occupy Oakland protesters were evicted from their park this week
and later teargassed by police when they tried to return.

Scott Olsen gave the Occupy Oakland movement a human face
at the price of his own future. He is in the hospital. The doctors
want to cut open his head to relieve pressure from the fractured
skull that he got from the Oakland police.

Scott Olsen is alive, no thanks to the Oakland police.
Great job Homeland Security! You almost killed a
young veteran! Hit in the head with a stun grenade
or a tear gas canister. Launched with great force and velocity.
The Oakland police saw him go down and offered no medical help.
Another stun grenade being thrown at protesters looking to help him.

Flash bomb? Explodes with a huge noise and a blinding flash?

The Oakland police violated their own Crowd Control Policy, which prohibits
the Oakland police department from making unlawful mass arrests,
from unwarranted use of chemical agents, and from shooting munitions
into a crowd.

Thank you, corrupted mass media, for reporting that no one was injured.
You are now looking like a bunch of liars. Did you bother to look at all
the young people with holes in their flesh from rubber bullets?
All the young people banged up by brutal assaults and arrests?
No. You had the police show the public some tiny bean bags.

Wonder why the police are so well coordinated? All those cameras on
the streets are fed into buildings paid for with our tax dollars and manned
by the same slimey corporations that have stolen the American way of life.
That's right. CIA and FBI and the usual suspects from the top 1%.
They always use someone else's money. Yours.
 
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Oct. 28 2011

The fire department and police department paid Occupy Wall Street a visit this morning and took their power generators.
The FDNY says they were looking for anything that posed a fire hazard: generators, fuel, gas tanks, etc.

According to reports, the materials were removed peaceably.

{Just plain mean and heartless for them to take away cooking and energy sources away when Winter has arrived so early.}

In a prescient move on Tuesday, the General Assembly approved a $4,000 budget for new bike-powered generators.

$4,000 for bikes to power OWS camp was ready and waiting.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/fdny_confiscate.php
 
The protesters are cheering because the cleaning is postponed.
There was a seven o'clock deadline.
The union joined the young people.

Link to Live coverage of event-

http://www.livestream.com/avaazwallstreet?utm_source=website-channel-page&utm_medium=related

I'm happy to see google stick to their guns. finally! the cops want google to remove videos (occupy oakland). guess some of Oakland's cops got a little violent .

sad that we the people need protection from police
 
Unbelievable. They are still shooting those plastic bullets filled with pepper spray at young people.

After they killed that girl with them in Boston, you would think they would take a hint.

Denver, Colorado
Oct 29, 2011

The police are supposed to be the responsible adults with cooler heads. Responsible? Accountable?

The young people are enduring assaults and staying peaceful despite aggression and hostility from adults.

DPD says officers used "non-lethal agents," like mace and paintball-like balls full of pepper spray, to subdue the crowd.

http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/227022/222/20-Occupy-Denver-protesters-arrested-in-clash

The young people's version-

"They asked us to take a tent down. Some kid was standing too close to them. They just started attacking everybody.

Spraying people with mace, arresting them. We did nothing," said Drigger.
 
The Forces of Darkness against the Forces of Light

Mayor Bloomberg is on the side of the 1%
Mayor Koch is on the side of the 99%

Deputy Inspector Sandwich Meat is rewarded for using pepper spray

NYPD who cause head injuries to defenceless people keep their jobs

Occupy Wall Street is punished for trying to bring justice and truth

The New York Times switched sides? The story changed in minutes.

The watch dogs pit the mice against the rats?

"....the NYPD seems to have crossed a line in recent days, as the park has taken on a darker tone with unsteady
and unstable types suddenly seeming to emerge from the woodwork. Two different drunks I spoke with last week
told me they’d been encouraged to “take it to Zuccotti” by officers who’d found them drinking in other parks,
and members of the community affairs working group related several similar stories they’d heard while talking
with intoxicated or aggressive new arrivals."

The NYPD’s press office declined to comment on the record about any such policy, but it seems like a logical tactic
from a Bloomberg administration that has done its best to make things difficult for the occupation —
a way of using its openness against it.

“He’s got a right to express himself, you’ve got a right to express yourself,” I heard three cops repeat in recent days,
using nearly identical language, when asked to intervene with troublemakers inside the park, including a clearly
disturbed man screaming and singing wildly at 3 a.m. for the second straight night.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/...rowing-east-west-sides-plaza-article-1.969320

"....the park's growing population of the drunk, the violent, and the mentally ill."
 
What happened to Deputy Inspector Sandwich Meat's sidekick? Deputy Inspector Holiday Greeting Card?

After he helped Mr. Meat by grabbing a pepper sprayed female victim by the hair, and dragging her underneath the net,
grabbing her by the throat, and dragging her on the sidewalk and road, Mr. Card went on to punch a young man directly
in the face, for looking at him while wearing the wrong expression on his face. Mr. Card's fellow officers pulled him away
from the male victim. The number and strength of the punches alarmed his fellow officers enough for them to compel
them to take action for the victim.

http://gothamist.com/2011/11/01/protester_claims_nypd_white-shirt_p.php

What happened to Deputy Inspector Baseball Bat? What Happened to Deputy Inspector Head Slammer?
What happened to Officer Workout Nightstick ? Nothing.
Unlike their victims, who are busy paying hospital bills.
 
Have fear-

Have fear of rape and injury. Ever since the NYPD has decided to move all the drug dealers, drug addicts, alcoholics,
and mentally ill people into Zuccotti Park. If the NYPD has decided it will not protect the Occupy Wall Street protesters-
the criminals the NYPD have encouraged to invade Zuccotti Park, will continue to cause worry and concern for the protesters.

What protection do the protesters have against disease filled hypodermic needles and the STDs, that violent invaders and rapists carry?
 
Desiree Frias

November 5, 2011

According to witnesses, one woman was caught between advancing cops and protesters
and dragged across the barricade. She was taken up the courthouse steps and cuffed
with zip ties against a courthouse column.

Desiree Frias, 18, cried as two cops brought her down the steps toward squad cars.

One officer said she was to be taken to One Police Plaza and likely processed back at the courthouse.

"They just handed her to me, I have no choice," said the female officer on her right.

UPDATE: 9:45 p.m. -- Desiree Frias is being charged with assaulting an officer, a felony,
and obstructing government administration and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors,
according to the clerk's office at One Police Plaza.

It remains unclear what type of assault was allegedly committed by Frias, who was wearing
a purple knitted cap and long blue skirt at the time of her arrest.

According to witnesses, Frias was caught between officers trying to clear the area in
Foley Square and protesters trying to hold their ground.

Frias's fiance Hector Asavedo said he had not been able to reach her and had not been
given any information, though the clerk said she would have access to a phone at
the precinct and could consult legal aid once her paperwork was processed. The lawyer
would then stand with her before the judge "once she's physically brought up."

?!?!?!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/05/occupy-wall-street-protest-courthouse_n_1078133.html

"He expected the protesters would be arraigned no sooner than 1:00 p.m. Sunday,
which is when the courthouse is scheduled to open. It typically takes at least 24 hours
to process the paperwork, Simon said, but he noted that at least 350 people were
awaiting processing at the 5th precinct where Frias was being held."

*sigh*
 
Zuccotti Park was the scene of 68 arrests. The OWS banner was shown on television on New Years Eve.
What was not shown, was a police van dedicated to following the OWS protesters around.
Ellen Barkin trying to talk to police about harassing the OWS protesters, did not get TV coverage.
A policeman who was nicked by scissors is truthful about being treated at the scene and being released.
Who told the press he was taken to Bellevue Hospital?

The police were brutal and violent. There was a news black out. Welcome to the police state.
 
I just read the story. What I took from it is that Ellen Barkin is shagging a nice young piece of 26 year old ass.
 
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