Arrests for “Occupy” Anniversary

New York – Protests to the six-month anniversary of the anti-Wall Street-motion “Occupy” in New York’s Zuccotti Park have been arrested in the early hours of Sunday dozens of activists. Shortly before midnight, the con

Occupy Wall Street (Photo credit: skinnylawyer)

gregation had tried to build on the site in Manhattan’s financial district, tents, police said. Then the protest had been resolved.

Police said the car just before midnight and was closed with a large contingent of demonstrators crowd out the most. But dozens have been led away in plastic handcuffs. Accurate data on the number of arrests made the New York police do not yet.

Hundreds of activists on Saturday had been gathered during the day, to the protests began on 17 To commemorate September 2011. They marched with banners and a replica of the Statue of Liberty with lower Manhattan.

When the police tried to clear the park in the financial district of the metropolis, there had been skirmishes. The demonstrators had responded with a sit-down strike, while slogans like “We’re not afraid,” chanted. Witnesses said security forces had used truncheons.

Just six months ago had Occupy-Wall Street movement began. The critics of the financial industry built back in the New York park a tent camp. The camp was in mid-November after nearly two months of the police force has been cleared.

The movement found in many other places in the U.S. and in Europe imitators. After the evacuation of the park was closed to the movement. Critics accuse her lack of direction and goals. But still she also attracts celebrities.

On Saturday evening, stopped by the filmmaker Michael Moore in Zuccotti Park. “I think it’s great that this movement continues to grow,” said Moore. “People are afraid that they will lose control of their lives.”