Occupy Wall Street Protesters Take Brooklyn Bridge - 700 Arrested.MIRROR

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In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 700 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.

"The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us on to the roadway," said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who was in the march but was not arrested.

Things came to a head shortly after 4 p.m., as the 1,500 or so marchers reached the foot of the Brooklyn-bound car lanes of the bridge, just east of City Hall.

In their march north from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan — headquarters for the last two weeks of a protest movement against what demonstrators call inequities in the economic system — they had stayed on the sidewalks, forming a long column of humanity penned in by officers on scooters.

Where the entrance to the bridge narrowed their path, some marchers, including organizers, stuck to the generally agreed-upon route and headed up onto the wooden walkway that runs between and about 15 feet above the bridge's traffic lanes.

But about 20 others headed for the Brooklyn-bound roadway, said Christopher T. Dunn of the New York Civil Liberties Union, who accompanied the march. Some of them chanted "take the bridge." They were met by a handful of high-level police supervisors, who blocked the way and announced repeatedly through bullhorns that the marchers were blocking the roadway and that if they continued to do so, they would be subject to arrest.

There were no physical barriers, though, and at one point, the marchers began walking up the roadway with the police commanders in front of them -- seeming, from a distance, as if they were leading the way. The Chief of Department Joseph J. Esposito, and a horde of other white-shirted commanders, was among them.

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[900DucatiSS]

This is astroturf. It was started by adbusters with George Soros' money and is being run by Moveon and SEIU with his money as well.

This whole thing is about keeping the democrats in power to keep the money flowing to big labor..

[IamTheaveragegamer]

charge the pigs

[Amnesty4Germany]

They act like every regime do, thats the usa, tells the whole world what independence seems to be and itself had and has none.That what they call democraty ist just a bad joke, watch 2:22 as one of those protestlers throw away the had of the police man lol

[nofxmike06]

I suggest everyone throw on some Pink Floyd "Us and Them" for this video. We are the end of the world. Humans will always fight. Its inevitable. Resources are thin. Expansion is imminent. They are coming to a town near you. Freedom is a utopian fantasy. It doesn't exist except in pockets of wealthy loyalists to the Bankers cause(s).

[rocklandstreet]

im from philly yes people are finally taking a stand i cant wait to come and join them!NYPD the games there playing seems to common to the games PPD plays see it before,i mean they create something that is nothing into something,look if they didnt want the protesters to cross the bridge why would they meet the protesters in the middle of the bridge instead of meeting them at the beginning of the bridge telling the protesters not to walk on the bridge,come on NYPD is full of you know what,dntstop