From SFGate The final vestige of the past year’s Occupy encampments in San Francisco was swept off the street late Wednesday night in a speedy police raid that had the mostly homeless denizens shooed off or arrested, and their tents trucked away, before reinforcing activists could arrive to effectively protest. The clearance began at 11:35 [...]
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Occupy Wall Street Organizer Shipped to Rikers Island
From Daily Caller Occupy Wall Street organizer Aaron Minter was sentenced to 10 days in New York City’s notorious jail, Rikers Island, on Friday. Gideon Oliver, a New York City-based lawyer and president of the National Lawyers Guild-New York City Chapter, said on Twitter Friday that Minter took a plea on a case arising from [...]
185 Arrested on Occupy Wall St. Anniversary
From NYT City Room The police arrested 185 people on Monday as protesters tried to block access to the New York Stock Exchange on the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Demonstrators had planned to converge from several directions and form what was called the People’s Wall around the stock exchange to protest [...]
NYPD Says OWS Protester Was Raped By Fellow Protester
From Gothamist On Monday, a 56-year-old woman was raped on the top level of Pier 15 on the East River Esplanade—and then thrown over the second-story railing. NYC Parks Advocates had reportedthat the woman met her attacker for a drink, “They two settled on a lawn area on the top floor of the pier. The [...]
Occupy Resurgence? Police Surround 200 Protesters in Unauthorized Anti-DNC March (Video)
From The Blaze Police surrounded a group of protesters Monday who blocked an intersection along a route used by delegate buses near the Democratic National Convention. At least one person was put in handcuffs. A demonstrator known only as the Captain is detained by police during an unscheduled protest march,Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Charlotte, [...]
Portland Occupiers Trash New Duplex (video)
From KGO Portland Police were warning homeowners of vacant properties after a suspected squatter with Occupy Portland was arrested at a Northeast Portland house. Sunday night officers were called to a burglary in the new duplex on the 500 block of NE Bryant Street. The owner told police he thought someone may be inside. One [...]
Portland Occupier Sues City for $3 Million
From Wilmette Weekly Occupy Portland demonstrator Justin James Bridges briefly became the movement’s poster child last November when he was hospitalized after police officers dragged him out of Chapman Square. Yesterday Bridges filed a lawsuit against the city of Portland, neighboring cities that sent police officers to last year’s downtown showdown and eight individual officers [...]
‘Kill The Pigs!’ – LA occupiers attack and injure police officers (video)
From ABC Local It’s a monthly event for downtown artists and shops to show off their wares, but Art Walk turned into a riot on Thursday night when Occupy Los Angeles protesters started using chalk to scroll graffiti on sideways and buildings. Three police officers were injured during a clash with protesters. The officers were [...]
Unhappy 4th of July: Occupiers vandalize downtown Oakland, spray paint “kill cops”
From Marathon Pundit The most violent tentacle of the Occupy movement is in Oakland. While they didn’t burn any flags during their July 4th rampage through the city’s downtown–as is their wont–they did spray paint, smash a window, and slash a tire of a police car. One brute spray painted “kill cops” on the headquarters [...]
28 occupiers arrested in Philadelphia
From Philly.com Police arrested 26 Occupy movement members during a protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center Sunday night. The 20 men and six women were charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic during the protest on the 1200 block of Race Street, police said. A video link provided by Occupy Philadelphia showed bicycle police officers [...]
DC occupiers found guilty
From The Crime Scene Eleven protesters from the now defunct Occupy D.C. camp in McPherson Square were found guilty of failure to obey an emergency order in D.C. Superior Court Thursday after they tried to build a wooden structure — the “Occubarn” — in the square in December, Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan’s office said [...]
Police defeat Occupy Milwaukee day after Scott Walker win (video)
From Marathon Pundit Left-wing Wisconsinites were unable to oust Republican reform governor Scott Walker from office yesterday. In response, this evening Occupy Milwaukee did what it sort-of does best. It held a rally and a march. Oddly enough they didn’t do these things on the day before Election Day–probably because the polls had predicted a [...]
