NEW YORK (AP) — About 80 people were arrested Saturday as
demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange
marched through lower Manhattan, police said.
The "Occupy Wall
Street" protest is entering its second week. Demonstrators said Saturday
they were protesting against bank bailouts and the mortgage crisis;
some also held signs decrying Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis, who was
put to death Wednesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty Savannah
police officer.
At Manhattan’s Union Square, police tried to
corral the demonstrators using orange plastic netting. Some of the
arrests were filmed and activists posted the videos online. One video
appears to show officers using pepper spray on women who already were
cordoned off; another shows officers handcuffing a man after pulling him
up off the ground, blood trickling down his face.
Police say the
arrests were mostly for blocking traffic. Charges include disorderly
conduct and resisting arrest. But one demonstrator was charged with
assaulting a police officer. Police say the officer involved suffered a
shoulder injury.
Protest spokesman Patrick Bruner criticized the
police response as "exceedingly violent" and said the demonstrators
sought to remain peaceful.
A police spokesman had no comment about the videos or the arrests.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
NEW YORK (AP) — About 80 people were arrested Saturday as
demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange
marched through lower Manhattan, police said.
The "Occupy Wall
Street" protest is entering its second week. Demonstrators said Saturday
they were protesting against bank bailouts and the mortgage crisis;
some also held signs decrying Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis, who was
put to death Wednesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty Savannah
police officer.
At Manhattan’s Union Square, police tried to
corral the demonstrators using orange plastic netting. Some of the
arrests were filmed and activists posted the videos online. One video
appears to show officers using pepper spray on women who already were
cordoned off; another shows officers handcuffing a man after pulling him
up off the ground, blood trickling down his face.
Police say the
arrests were mostly for blocking traffic. Charges include disorderly
conduct and resisting arrest. But one demonstrator was charged with
assaulting a police officer. Police say the officer involved suffered a
shoulder injury.
Protest spokesman Patrick Bruner criticized the
police response as "exceedingly violent" and said the demonstrators
sought to remain peaceful.
A police spokesman had no comment about the videos or the arrests.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.