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Occupy protesters evicted from New York park
Tuesday November 15, 2011 07:50:06 PM,
IANS
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New York: Police in
full riot gear moved into New York's Zuccotti Park early Tuesday,
evicting hundreds of protesters from the site where the Occupy
Wall Street movement began two months ago.
Dozens of protesters who had camped out at the Lower Manhattan
park since Sep 17 linked arms in defiance, according to CNN. Many
chanted "Whose park? Our park" and "You don't have to do this".
Police arrested at least 14 people, it said citing Kanene Holder,
a spokeswoman for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Authorities did
not immediately provide figures.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office said the clearance is temporary.
"Occupants of Zuccotti should temporarily leave and remove tents
and tarps. Protesters can return after the park is cleared," the
mayor's office said in a tweet at 1.34 a.m. About 10 minutes
later, the eviction began.
Police handed out notices from the park's owner, Brookfield Office
Properties, that said the continued occupation posed a health and
fire hazard.
The Occupy Wall Street website video streamed the eviction under a
banner headline that read, "NYPD is raiding Liberty Square".
Liberty Square is the former name of the park. While many
protesters left without resisting, many others moved to the centre
of the park to an area known as the kitchen.
There, they built barricades with tables to keep police away, CNN
said. The air was thick with smoke, which some protesters said was
from teargas that officers lobbed.
The park remained closed as of 7 a.m., with all four sides
barricaded and a number of police officers on the scene. A sign
posted at the park said when the park reopens, a 10 p.m. curfew
would be in place, and tents and sleeping bags will be prohibited.
Bloomberg said in a statement that Occupy demonstrators "must
follow the park rules if they wished to continue to use it to
protest".
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