Thread: Hundreds freed after New York OCCUPY Wall Street protest

2 October 2011 Last updated at 11:57 ET

Hundreds freed after New York Wall Street protest

Police in New York City have freed most of the more than 700 people arrested on Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday during a protest against corporate greed.

Fewer than 20 protesters are still held as they are yet to be identified.

Most of those freed were given citations for disorderly conduct and a criminal court summons.

The Occupy Wall Street group, camped in Manhattan's financial district for two weeks, says it will continue its demonstrations.

A spokesman for the New York Police Department told the BBC the small group still detained were expected to appear at the Manhattan criminal court on Sunday.

'Multiple warnings'

The arrests took place on Saturday after protesters carried out an impromptu walk over the East River to Brooklyn.

Some demonstrators carried slogans reading "End the Fed" and "Pepper spray Goldman Sachs".

Police said the protesters were given "multiple warnings" to keep to the pedestrian walkway but spread to the road, halting bridge traffic for several hours.

Some protesters accused the police of not issuing warnings or of tricking them on to the roadway, accusations the police denied.

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Occupy Wall Street says it will continue its campaign, with meetings on Sunday in Zuccotti Park, the privately owned area of land not far from Wall Street that it has occupied since 17 September.

There will be another march on Wall Street on Wednesday afternoon.

"We are the majority. We are the 99%. And we will no longer be silent," the group said in a statement.

"We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of non-violence to maximise the safety of all participants."

The protesters have had previous run-ins with New York's police.

On Friday, about 2,000 people marched under the Occupy Wall Street banner to New York's police headquarters to protest against arrests and police behaviour.

Some 80 people were arrested during a march on 25 September, mostly for disorderly conduct and blocking traffic, but one person was charged with assaulting a police officer.

A series of other small-scale protests have also sprung up in other US cities in sympathy with the aims of Occupy Wall Street.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15143509

Now that they have been identified, they should lose their "allowance".

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quoted from one of the articles on the link below

These people are starting to wake up! They're beginning to realize just how deep the global banking theft scam really runs. Just wait for the day when the entire country wakes up and realizes everything has been stolen from them by the crooks running our global banking system... on that day, there is absolutely no question that Martial Law will be declared in America.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-251407.html

I saw one sign on the news last night that said:

E-VERIFY equals

JOBS FOR AMERICANS

I will have to admit there is corporate greed. But there is also greed of the American people as well. And end the "FED",they should have marched on Dc for that one.

Originally Posted by uniteasone

. . . And end the "FED",they should have marched on Dc for that one.

They got their message in every major news paper in the country, Live From New York.