OCCUPIERS OF WALL STREET NOW BEING ARRESTED..
Scores arrested as police clear NYC Occupy camp
NBC News Hundreds of police officers, some in riot gear, descended on Zuccotti Park after midnight Tuesday in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street headquarters. Protesters were chained to trees and each other but were removed from the park, which was cleared in less than three hours. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said there [...]It comes just two days ahead of a massive planned demonstration Thursday marking the movement’s two-month anniversary.

Police handed out letters to protesters ordering them to temporarily evacuate the park. Police said the eviction will improve health conditions.

Campers were ordered to remove all their tents. Police claimed it was a health issue.

Protesters were told they will be allowed to return to the park in several hours, after the park is inspected, but without their property, which will be brought to a sanitation garage.

On Twitter, stunned activists are calling for crowds to descend to the park to confront police and protest.

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UPDATE (2:16 am EST): Activists gather their property and leave, as police remove remaining tents and equipment. An onlooker accuses officers of “complete disregard for personal belongings.”

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UPDATE 2 (2:24 am EST): Twitter users claim media have been barred from the area of Zuccotti Park; the Occupy Wall Street live feed above may be one of the only sources of live images. Here is another nearby live feed:


UPDATE 3 (2:40 am EST): Thus far the NYPD’s careful tactics have apparently succeeded in clearing Zuccotti Park. Activists are regrouping in nearby streets, and may attempt to return tomorrow or to court arrest, but for many of the activists, the party seems over.
LOOKING AT THE DESTRUCTION BELOW YOU GOTTA' WONDER WHY IT TOOK nypd SO LONG TO ALLOW THIS GROUP TO DESTROY AN AREA. Try to remember in 2012 that President Obama and the Democrats condoned this rebellion. BE###
NBC-New York:

Downtown residents and business owners angry that their neighborhood has been occupied for two months by the Wall Street demonstration are staging a protest of the protest Monday, declaring that City Hall has let it get out of control.
Angry over all-day drumming, people urinating and defecating on the streets and verbal attacks from protesters, organizers say they will rally at City Hall Monday to send officials a message.
“Laws are clearly being violated and we simply want them enforced,” Lower Manhattan resident Linda Gertsman told NBC New York.

Exasperated residents and businesses said they are “pursuing all options,” including lawsuits against the city, the mayor and the private company that owns Zuccotti Plaza, the encampment headquarters.
Organizers of the anti-Occupy protest posted fliers downtown that say “Mayor Bloomberg is helping them stay.”
The Occupy Wall Street movement began with a few people on Sept. 17 and has grown to hundreds who have made Zuccotti Park, a small plaza along Broadway, their home.
Businesses have complained for weeks that the encampment is causing them to lose money, although a few have made money off the protests, as donors from all over the country have sent food from nearby restaurants to the movement.
Mark Epstein, owner of Milk Street Cafe on Wall Street, said his business has suffered and he has had to lay off people in recent weeks.
The protest has been, he says, “a fiasco.”
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