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Clashes and Hundreds of Arrests Mark Protest’s ‘Day of Action’Two months after it began in New York, Occupy Wall Street carried out a “Day of Action” on Thursday featuring an attempt to delay the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, demonstrations on the subways, a sit-in in the roadway at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge and unscheduled clashes with the police in Zuccotti Park that left a protester with a bloodied face and an officer with a lacerated hand. (via Clashes and Hundreds of Arrests Mark Protest’s ‘Day of Action’ - NYTimes.com)
Jennifer, a two-month pregnant woman, receiving care at an ambulance after being hit directly with pepper spray by police at the Occupy Seattle Solidarity March last night. Also in video, police push away an onlooker appearing to have tried to bring milk to a pepper sprayed protester.
Occupy Seattle protesters on a public sidewalk are ordered to clear the intersection before police begin using pepper spray on the group. Videography by Ansel Herz.
Ansel Herz, the videographer, also pepper sprayed, explains the scene at his blog.
Photos from the Occupy Seattle protest tuesday night in Westlake Park. Seattle activists Dorli Rainey, age 84, and Jennifer (surname unknown), two-month pregnant, were both directly hit with pepper spray by Seattle police. Photography by Joshua Trujillo / seattlepi.com.
More photos and full story at seattlepi.com
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“This one is very serious, guys:
I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl:...
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