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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
Also cant believe the city of Boston is letting these guys get away with no permits, no sanitations and providing them electricity, also no tracking of donations. Those things were never offered to the tea party, but what do you expect. One repersents law abiding WORKERS, the other people who expect things to be given to them.
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I guess you missed the News this morning....
About 100 arrested as police break up Occupy Boston protest camp
BOSTON — About 100 people were arrested early Tuesday after Occupy Boston protesters refused to leave a park in the city, police reportedly said.
The Boston Globe reported that riot police officers arrived near the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway park at about 1:20 a.m. ET with dozens of sheriff vans and police wagons arriving minutes later.
The paper said more than 200 officers surrounded the Greenway and Police Superintendent William Evans gave the protesters two minutes to leave or be thrown in jail.
‘"The people united will never be defeated," "this is a peaceful protest," "the whole world is watching," the crowd chanted, according to the Globe.
The paper said officers went into the park about 10 minutes later with another warning given over loudspeaker. Protesters were then made to lie down, cable-tied and taken away. Tents were torn down.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told the Globe that no one sustained any injuries, although an officer was hit in the face.
The paper said many of the protesters — about 1,000 people had gathered there earlier — left the park.
It added that some in the crowd shouted at police "you don’t have to do this" and "who do you protect, who do you serve?"
Jamie Kenneally, a police spokesman, told The Washington Post that the arrests were mainly for trespassing.
"Now they've moved to another part of the Greenway and that's not acceptable," commissioner Davis told NBC-affiliate WHDH earlier.
A conservancy group had planted shrubs worth around $150,000 along the greenway and officials were worried about damage, The Washington Post reported.
John Nilles, 74, who served in Vietnam and is a member of Veterans for Peace, told the Globe that he was knocked to the ground during the arrest operation, banging his knee.
"I have absolutely no use for police anymore. I don't know what I'm going to do," he told the paper.
Occupy Boston used social media to alert supporters as officers arrived and called for more people to come.
"SWAT TEAM putting on RIOT GEAR on High St. PLEASE JOIN US NOW!," it said on its Facebook page.
Tension had been building late Monday night after Occupy Boston members expanded their footprint in downtown Boston.
"The BPD respects your right to protest peacefully. We ask for your ongoing cooperation," the Boston Police Department said in a tweet to @Occupy_Boston, but did not mention any ultimatum.
Protesters' tents have been in Dewey Square Park in downtown Boston all month, but on Monday they expanded to a larger section of the nearby Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
Many linked arms Monday evening in a show of solidarity on their expanded turf.
fliers handed out on site in Boston, and in a press release, the police told protesters: "if asked to leave an area, please do so peacefully."
Police said officers would arrest those knowingly in violation of the law "if necessary." They also warned protesters they would use video cameras to record any disorderly behavior.
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