Over 50 Occupy Wall Street Protesters Arrested in Yesterday’s Action
Yesterday saw the first real show of force from Occupy Wall Street since police cleared them from the symbolic home of the movement, Zuccotti Park, nearly a month ago. Hundreds of protesters descended on Duarte Square, hoping to take over a large gravel-lot-slash-park owned by faltering ally Trinity Wall Street Church, and attempted to alternatively topple (see picture) and scale the chain-link fence surrounding the square. “Everything about this movement is momentum,” one 27-year-old demonstrator told the Times. “We need to show people that we are still relevant.” The protests may have failed to secure a new beachhead, but at least they are back in the headlines, with nearly 50 people arrested on the spot and several more rounded up during a small and heavily policed march up Seventh Avenue to Times Square.
