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Arrests and Clashes Downtown (NYC) as May Day Protests Spread
nyt ^ | May 1, 2012, 11:31 am | COLIN MOYNIHAN, IVAN PEREIRA and ANDY NEWMAN

Posted on 05/02/2012 10:40:04 AM PDT by Red Steel

Updated, May 2 | About 30 protesters have been arrested on Tuesday around Manhattan in a day of May Day demonstrations organized by Occupy Wall Street, the police said.

Most of the arrests were on disorderly conduct charges, but some people were charged with assault, the police said. And some demonstrators who tried to avoid being detained on various charges were charged with resisting arrest, the police said. Protesters were arrested near Bryant Park in Midtown, on the Williamsburg Bridge, at a park on the Lower East Side and near Washington Square Park as marchers kept on the move and repeatedly converged and split off.

Around 3 p.m., a crowd surged out of Washington Square Park carrying a banner that read “On Strike.” Officers shouted for protesters to remain on the sidewalk, but several protesters holding the banner stepped into the middle of Avenue of the Americas, where several officers — including one in plain clothes who had appeared to be marching with the crowd — tackled and arrested them.

One protester who was led away in cuffs had a bloodied face.

Breaking News Network, which transcribes emergency radio broadcasts, reported six arrests at the clash near Washington Square Park.

Activists and the police had been playing cat-and-mouse across downtown, as the marchers ranged quickly from Chinatown to SoHo to Greenwich Village, taking to the roadways and often moving against traffic apparently in an attempt to thwart pursuit.

(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News
KEYWORDS: chimpout; obamaschildren; occupywallstreet

"A police lieutenant swings his baton at an Occupy Wall Street activists on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City Tuesday on International Workers Day, or May Day, "


1 posted on 05/02/2012 10:40:14 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

I thought yesterday was May Day.


2 posted on 05/02/2012 10:45:53 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Red Steel
One protester who was led away in cuffs had a bloodied face.

Only one? Shame.

3 posted on 05/02/2012 10:47:10 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Red Steel

The fact that White Shirts are getting their hands dirty (Chiefs even!) is absolutely ludicrous and should never happen. That’s like a General kicking in a door in Afghanistan.


4 posted on 05/02/2012 10:48:09 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Red Steel
These tramps are being paid by Soro’s..I saw some of this on FOX and feel they should have shot those bastards off the roof of those buildings..the filthy dumb asses were throwing bricks trying to hit police or anyone they could with the bricks..
5 posted on 05/02/2012 10:51:37 AM PDT by PLD (It is time the freeloaders leave the white house and go back to the hell hole where they came from..)
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To: thefactor
That’s like a General kicking in a door in Afghanistan.

Well, O'bama set the tone when he went to Abbottabad and personally cold-cocked OBL.

6 posted on 05/02/2012 10:51:59 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Red Steel

That right there has the makings of a real home run swing. Dude he's aiming for doesn't look like your typical granola munching hippy. Professional agitators much?

7 posted on 05/02/2012 10:55:05 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: Red Steel
The illegals also attacked some of my friends down at Foley Square.
8 posted on 05/02/2012 11:12:14 AM PDT by OddLane (If Lionel Hutz and Guy Smiley had a lovechild together, his name would be "Mitt Romney." -KAJ)
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To: thefactor

Never let it be said the NYPD Whiteshirts didn’t lead from the front during this chaos.

Should they be mixing it up? What slicksleeve is gonna be caught saying, hey Lou, maybe you better sit this one out...

God bless ‘em all. And hopefully they don’t have to deal with the Chicago poop bombs.


9 posted on 05/02/2012 11:15:41 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (A Bounty on Zimmerman, Can Be A Bounty On ANYONE. No NBPP Mob Justice!)
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To: Red Steel
"Knock him out of the park!...Nice windup!"
10 posted on 05/02/2012 11:25:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Molon Labbie

I think this would be a really, really great year to have the democrat convention in Chicago.


11 posted on 05/02/2012 11:44:24 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: Red Steel
This is an epic picture. God Bless the police.
12 posted on 05/02/2012 11:49:44 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision

When people appear in black clothes and masks, they are there to make trouble. Give it to them.

Arrests, Stop arresting them and cutting them loose with a $50,dollar fine. Put them at hard labor for 60 days. They won’t be back.

Peaceful demostrations by law abiding folks wearing no mask and obeying the law, that is what is allowed.


13 posted on 05/02/2012 11:59:36 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: cuban leaf

Yes, and May Day is a Communist Holiday. Kind of makes sense doesn’t it. These guys show up with masks just to cause trouble.


14 posted on 05/02/2012 12:03:44 PM PDT by RichardMoore (There is only one issue- Life: dump TV and follow a plant based diet)
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To: Red Steel
Around 3 p.m., a crowd surged out of Washington Square Park carrying a banner that read “On Strike.”

What jobs were they striking from?

15 posted on 05/02/2012 12:22:50 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: thefactor

One of the concerns here in NJ was that the police layoffs (thousands) resulted in middle-aged police forces (since the last hired were the first fired); I don’t know that having younger cops really made a difference, though.


16 posted on 05/02/2012 1:46:35 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: PLD

..the filthy dumb asses were throwing bricks trying to hit police or anyone they could with the bricks..

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Throwing bricks at another human being?

In a better America, before the historically destructive infestation of lawyers, that used to be called assault with a deadly weapon, even attempted murder, and prosecuted accordingly without a second thought.


17 posted on 05/02/2012 1:50:55 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Non-Holder person.)
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