Police Arrest Hundreds of Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge

[kpete]

Source: New York Times

October 1, 2011, 4:29 PM
Police Arrest Hundreds of Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
By AL BAKER and COLIN MOYNIHAN


Updated, 6:12 p.m. | In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested several hundred demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.

The police did not immediately release precise arrest figures, but said it was the choice of those marchers that led to the swift enforcement.

“Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” said the head police spokesman, Paul J. Browne. “Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested.”

But many protesters said that they thought the police had tricked and trapped them, allowing them onto the bridge and even escorting them across, only to surround them in orange netting after hundreds of them had entered.


Read more: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/

[senseandsensibility]

1. K and R

eom

[uppityperson]

2. Does that include this girl?

Link to other Du post with more pictures http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2038596&mesg_id=2038596

[tcaudilllg]

3. Bloomberg will fall!

And for these crimes he will be the one wearing orange!

[sce56]

6. Why? The movement needs to be front page news everywhere for that to happen and the Evil Overlords

are still in control of the media!

[AnnieK401]

10. Absolutely!

How is this not the main focus on cable news 24/7? I heard a NY Times reporter and a 12 yr old girl were arrested.

[valerief]

20. IDCITNT

It doesn't count if they're not teabaggers.

[No Elephants]

24. Bingo.

[tcaudilllg]

33. Secret orders from on high, courtesy of the Friends for Koch network

We need to take direct aim at the boards of these companies.

[tcaudilllg]

32. We could change that, starting with the NYT.

Boycott, anyone?

[No Elephants]

27. Sure, sure.

[sasha031]

4. k/r rec.

:mad:

[Plucketeer]

5. We need more people there!

Damn my being stucxk here! :mad:

[Downwinder]

8. Wish I could be there.

[sce56]

7. Police Arrest About 400 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge!

From the OP Reference page.

<SNIP>
Earlier in the afternoon, as many as 10 Department of Correction buses, big enough to hold 20 prisoners apiece, had been dispatched from Rikers Island in what one law enforcement official said was “a planned move on the protesters.”

Etan Ben-Ami, 56, a psychotherapist from Brooklyn who was up on the walkway, said that the police seemed to make a conscious decision to allow the protesters to claim the road. “They weren’t pushed back,” he said. “It seemed that they moved at the same time.”

Mr. Ben-Ami said he left the walkway and joined the crowd on the road. “It seemed completely permitted,” he said. “There wasn’t a single policeman saying ‘don’t do this’.”

He added: “We thought they were escorting us because they wanted us to be safe.” He left the bridge when he saw officers unrolling the nets as they prepared to make arrests. Many other who had been on the roadway were allowed to walk back down to Manhattan.

[Ed Suspicious]

9. Another episode of The Cops are Not Your Friends". n/t

[Dawson Leery]

11. Bloomberg/Kelly are s**t.

[blackspade]

12. There is some disconnect here.

Whoever is running the NYPD is either and idiot or has no concept of crowd psychology.
Are they trying to make the protests violent? I sure do. That will fit in well with the M$M anti-protester reporting.

Don't the cops realize that the protesters are supporting them as well? It's not like the NYPD pension fund didn't get rodded by Wall Street.

[No Elephants]

25. They may well be trying to make the protesters violent.

Apparently, a few cops do realize the protestors are representing them, too. I read a story that said 100 cops were supporting the protestors.

The rest either don't or want to keep their own jobs, or both.

Class technique: pit one group of underclass against another group of underclass and they will forget to pay attention to that man behind the curtain.

[TorchTheWitch]

36. it's the local government whose thumb the local police force is under

Any police force is either as good or as bad as the local government who controls it wants it to be.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

13. Who were the people that started chanting "take the bridge"

Provocateur check needed.
This can be a hard game to play.
Do what the cops say and stay out of traffic.

[No Elephants]

29. Please see Reply 26.

[JackFootball]

14. The people are waking up

Protests are good.

[Hissyspit]

15. AP: 700 Arrests

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WALL_STREET_PROTEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-01-23-15-25

Oct 1, 11:15 PM EDT

700 arrested after protest on NY's Brooklyn Bridge

By COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police.

The group Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in a plaza in Manhattan's Financial District for nearly two weeks staging various marches, and had orchestrated an impromptu trek to Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon. They walked in thick rows on the sidewalk up to the bridge, where some demonstrators spilled onto the roadway after being told to stay on the pedestrian pathway, police said.

The majority of those arrested were given citations for disorderly conduct and were released, police said.

Some protesters sat on the roadway, chanting "Let us go," while others chanted and yelled at police from the pedestrian walkaway above. Police used orange netting to stop the group from going farther down the bridge, which is under construction.

[shanti]

22. and 700 more will step into their places.

:thumbsup:

[SpiralHawk]

16. This will AMP the whole thing up into Overdrive

gonna get bigger

major police boehner

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. I have to congratulate the protesters for their peaceful response. This easily could have turned

extremely ugly, especially because it occured over a rather long period with no doubts possible as to what was happening.

:thumbsup:

[No Elephants]

28. AFAIK, no one has trained them in non-violent protesting, either.

So, really big ups to them.

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. Ooh, very true, very good point!

[iamthebandfanman]

18. wonder how much

they are making off the arrests?

i mean the department/city ...

[Dawson Leery]

19. See this:

http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Home/article/ny-13.htm

[Dover]

21. 700 arrested after protest on NY's Brooklyn Bridge

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2011-10-01-Wall%20Street%20Protest/id-962a7866a0e34770842ee0a32abea906

[Dover]

23. We need a picture of the chaos at the police station where they take all these people.

Bottom line, ya can't arrest and jail them all. And when they are released, I'm guessing they'll go right back along with new recruits.

[FreeBillClinton]

26. VIDEO: police leading protesters on to the bridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz67fULXc-0&feature=player_embedded

[Solly Mack]

31. k/r

[quakerboy]

34. so how many holding cells does the NYPD

have at their disposal?

Its gonna take more protestors than places to stick them before the police are stuck with finding a new way.

[Bloke 32]

35. Do I understand this correctly?

Carrying loaded firearms with "Blood of Tyrants" placards a few dozen metres from where the president is speaking, in a country that has already lost four leaders to gun-toting madmen, is completely above board, but peacefully protesting against the bonkers and traitors---oh, terribly sorry, bankers and traders---who have wrecked your economy is not appropriate?

Is that about right? Because I do try hard not to make assumptions about other countries.