Occupy Wall Street live - Day of Action

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Riot

No, they weren't trying to get in front of the NYSE (they were across the street), it was a smaller group of people trying to walk over a couple blocks.

Now they are walking over to a meeting with another group, before the Subway and Bridge stuff.

Did you get to see the cops bring in more troops, close down the park, encircle it, and then run in roust out one guy that was kicking the barricades? During that, they locked the park down, and wouldn't let anyone in or out for about 30 minutes - several hundred people, while they got one and arrested him.

There were groups all over the place this morning. Obviously every access point around the NYSE were locked down. The big group seemed to located at the corner of Pine and Broad St. about 2 blocks north of the exchange.
Not sure if that's what you are talking about.

You try make everything seem very cut and dry, but that really doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not a cop (and don't desire to be one), but I really don't think that this is easy situation for them either. They have a orders and a job to do as well. Obviously it's a very high pressure/high tension situation, throw in the fact that everyone has a camera (besides the media) and is looking to crucify the police for trying to do their job. I'm also guessing that you're probably not seeing everything that's really going on, from the feeds that you are watching. I think that the majority of the protesters are their in peace trying to spread their message. But please don't be so naive to think that everyone involved is a choirboy.

So they held everyone in the park for a half hour, big deal. The protesters tried to keep us from getting to work this morning. Are you saying that the cops locking down the park is wrong, but the protesters trying to keep people from getting to work is acceptable?

Let's see what the commute home brings.