More than 1,400 police officers, some in riot gear, cleared the Occupy Los Angeles camp early Wednesday, driving protesters from a park around City Hall and arresting more than 200 who defied orders to leave. Similar raids in Philadelphia led to 52 arrests, but the scene in both cities was relatively peaceful.
Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia moved in on Occupy Wall Street encampments under darkness in an effort to clear out some of the longest-lasting protest sites since crackdowns ended similar occupations across the country.
Beanbags fired from shotguns were used to subdue the final three protesters in a makeshift tree house outside Los Angeles City Hall, police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said, describing it as a minor use of force incident. No serious injuries were reported.
I saw on the news this morning that there were more protestors waiting a few blocks away from city hall, but obviously there are police all over the place. I think that there still will be protests, just not on the scale of what has been happening over the past few weeks.
It was just too unorganized...it first started off as protesting, but some of the people involved just wanted to feel cool by following everyone else and looking like idiots on the news. If they marched, held signs, and yelled "What do we want!" rather than dancing to music and playing cards with their friends inside their tents, maybe they could have accomplished something.
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It was just too unorganized...it first started off as protesting, but some of the people involved just wanted to feel cool by following everyone else and looking like idiots on the news. If they marched, held signs, and yelled "What do we want!" rather than dancing to music and playing cards with their friends inside their tents, maybe they could have accomplished something.
You just took the words right out of my mouth D:
-- Edited by Kyle Wu on Wednesday 30th of November 2011 07:03:44 PM
