95 Arrested After Trying to ‘Occupy’ a San Fran Bank: ‘Give Us Back What You Stole!’
- Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:51am by
Billy Hallowell
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Members of the Occupy movement wait to be arrested as they sit inside and outside of a tent inside a Bank of America branch office Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 in the financial district of San Francisco. Deputy Police Chief Kevin Cashman said 80 arrests were expected for trespassing. Suspects were taken to jail, cited and released. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
SAN FRANCISCO (The Blaze/AP) — Police arrested 95 Occupy protesters and students Wednesday who stormed into a downtown San Francisco bank and shouted slogans as they tried to set up camp in the lobby.
The arrests came after about 100 demonstrators rushed into a Bank of America branch, chanting “money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations.” The L.A. Times has more regarding what occurred inside of the bank:
They scrawled messages in chalk on the bank walls — “Greed!“ and ”Give Us Back What You stole!” — and plastered pink phone message slips on desks and computer screens. One man was seen urinating in a corner.
Police officers in riot gear cuffed the activists one-by-one as hundreds more demonstrators surrounded the building, blocking entrances and exits.
Officer Albie Esparza said 95 were arrested. Authorities said they were taken to jail, cited and released.
No injuries were reported. See some footage from outside of the occupation:
And here’s more footage (caution: language):
Willow Curless, 63, said she and her husband rode their bicycles from their home in Marin County and watched the protest from outside the bank.
“I honor these people in there,” she said. “They’re making an important statement for the 99 percent.”
In a separate protest, about 250 demonstrators assembled in front of the State Building on Golden Gate Avenue for about 90 minutes. Elsewhere, students and anti-Wall Street activists settled into a new encampment at the University of California, Berkeley, and visited the state Capitol to demand the restoration of funding for higher education.
An Occupy protestor sits on a desk inside a Bank of America branch office Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 in the financial district of San Francisco. Police arrested a number of protesters and students who stormed the branch and tried to set up camp in the lobby. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
At Berkeley, police watched over about two dozen tents that were pitched Tuesday night on a student plaza despite a campus policy that forbids camping. Police warned that protesters could be arrested if they didn’t leave.
Seth Weinberg, a 20-year-old cognitive science major, said he slept in a tent on Sproul Plaza to press the university to lobby for more public education funding.
“There should be a way for anyone who wants to go to college if they choose to,” Weinberg said. “What the university doesn’t understand is that we are not camping out. This is a constant protest.”
In Sacramento, about 75 student leaders and a few administrators from UC Berkeley and the University of California, Davis lobbied lawmakers and the governor to allocate more money to education.
Adam Thongsavat, student body president at UC Davis, called on lawmakers to be “more courageous, more aggressive and more thoughtful.”
“Come to our campuses and see how your actions affect us,” he said. “I want you all to tell us why prisons deserve more spending than universities.”
University of California President Mark Yudof issued a statement of support for the students’ “passion and conviction” in support of public higher education.
“We also suffer together the strains caused by what has been a long pattern of state disinvestment in the University of California,” he said.
Protesters in San Francisco marched through downtown in a demonstration partly organized by ReFund California, a coalition of student groups and university employee unions.
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Comments (85)
starman70
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:07pmThe banks don’t owe these idiots anything. It appears the majority of them have never worked or held a job. They probably never even had a bank account, either checking or savings. How in the world could a bank have “Stolen” anything from them?
A person has to be a responsible citizen to have a bank account.They must have a JOB, they must have income in order to put anything in the bank. Does that describe that occupying crowd? I THINK NOT!
Report Post »meamerican
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:14pmI couldn’t agree more – Maybe they can provide a list of the items that were stolen from them.
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:26pmSo what do you call it when you (OWS) take something from someone (the banks) that you perceive was taken from someone else (the government/consumer). Since most of these jokers are college students I suspect they have already taken enough. I assume were footing the bill for their education since they’ll default on it anyway, plus will probably draw unemployment when they can’t get a job applying their degree in tie dye art or sand script translations. Which were footing the bill for as well.
I‘m thinking any good lawyer joke can now be applied to OWSer’s. What do you call it when a bus load of OWSer’s goes off a cliff……….?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:16pmSo now criminal trespassing is legal?
Why are the cops NOT removing these dirt bags? Have all property rights been declared null and void? Or has BOA agreed to let these unwashed vermin “occupy” their halls? If so, never mind, BOA then deserves what it gets. If not, arrest these slime monkeys and put them up on charges.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:17pmAh, overlooked the “arrested” part, my bad.
Report Post »occupyfresno
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:40pmDon’t be so close minded, I was in the protest because I believe it’s unfair what they are doing. I can’t pay my college tuition with my job and my parents help. I refuse to let tuition rise and let the rich get richer while we the students suffer. I agree, they shouldn’t have gotten rowdy and all but overall, we have the right to be angry.
Report Post »microace
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:51pmAnother point you didn’t list, is they have probably never paid taxes either…
Report Post »JohnGaltSpeaks
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:20pm@occupyfresno
Why exactly do you have the ‘right to be angry’?
Are you mad you made a personal decision (that no one else is responsible for) to go to a college that you knew you couldn’t afford before even sending in your application for enrollment?
Are you upset that the ‘rich that are getting richer’ are the over-paid, tenured, liberal professors and administrators who fill your skulls full of mush with grievances and paradigms that have no basis in reality and who have retreated to the safety and security of academia rather than have their precious philosophies and ideas challenged in the real world?
Are you angry that the ‘tuition rise’ you are talking about is directly caused by Universities and Colleges who keep on raising tuition rates and fees because they know that Uncle ‘Bama will always be around to hand out some more of his ’stash money’ in the form of Pell Grants and no-interest student loans?
If Colleges and Universities know that they will always get their money from the taxpayer no matter how high they raise the tuition they have absolutely no incentive to keep the tuition cost reasonable.
If you are going to get upset at anyone it should be the right people (government bureaucrats, school trustees, college professors and administrators) for the right reasons (gouging government loan programs, over-loading degree programs with worthless PC courses to increase credit hours required to graduate, state programs for giving illegals in
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:40pmSounds like robbery to me.
Report Post »Mountain Mama Martha
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:24pmWhy doesn’t the stupid liberal media ask them…how much have you EVER deposited in a bank? You don’t put something in…you don’t get something out. I am so sick of this mess I don’t know what to do.
Report Post »Mountain Mama Martha
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:29pm@occupyfresno: You are one of the ones that made me sick to my stomach. What makes you think that I or any other hard working taxpayer should pay for your education? Get your a$$ out and go to work for it. I did. My husband did. My kids did. Nobody handed us anything, and certainly not an education. We worked for everything that we got. You don’t want your tuition going up? Get rid of the Union teachers demanding more and more for nothing. They are just like you. They think the world owes them a living. There are very few teachers today that care about educating their students and not just doing it for the money. ALL of my teachers were concerned with education, but then the Unionos hadn’t taken over the school system either.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:02pmGive me…Give me………..lol Brother..what a bunch of idiots.
Report Post »Wayne
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:00pmYou have to have something before someone can steal it from you. These low life hoodlums never worked a day in their life, they look like trash.
Report Post »CapnBill
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:33pmIt seems to me that the majority of the money given to the banks in the bail-out was not the money they paid in taxes. (If they paid any taxes at all, they seem to be unemployed) I would guess that a large share of the bailout money came from the richest 1%. This is the point at which I get confused!
Report Post »hightide
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:30pmDear OWS, when you say “Give us back what you stole”, you forget that when you signed your mortgage agreement you agreed to pay the money that the bank LOANED you. You do not own the house until you pay the bank back. They tried to do you a favor and now you are acting like a fool. Same deal with student loans, only the government manages the loans for your tuition. So it’s the government, Sallie Mae, that gave you money to go to college with the expectation that you would pay it back. So if you don’t pay the bank or Sallie Mae back, it’s YOU that is stealing. Wake up. No one is buying your bs and you look like idiots protesting what you don’t understand.
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:11pmThe notion of voluntary contract seems to fly right over leftists’ heads.
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:24pm“I want you all to tell us why prisons deserve more spending than universities.”
Report Post »Hows this…They have a better education system in place…In jail, you will learn how to follow the rules, that not following the rules, you get punished. You will also learn that what the other guy has, isn’t yours, even if he has way more than you. Another good life lesson you’ll learn, If you stand in someones face screaming “We are the 99%, This is our street!” You’ll get a beat down…Just a few of the really good courses they offer in jail..You won’t hear a prison employee promote an “occupy movement”…Man, this list could go on forever…
But, really let’s give them what they want…Want free education, let’s see how many of these colleges stay open after the government starts paying them… You like your school?….It’s there because of the people who want to go there…I don’t want to go to that school, so why should I pay for you to go there?…If I’m gonna pay for it …You go to the school I want you to go to…No more freedom of choice…That comes with a free society…Understand that?..You like to pick your major?..That won’t happen any more either…Doctor?…Ahh, to expensive , your gonna major in Sanitation Engineering.
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:23pmI wonder how many of these OWS college idiots know that men like Abraham Lincoln agreed with the customary obligation of a son to give his father all earnings from work done outside the home until age 21?
While young Lincoln’s formal elementary education consisted approximately of a years worth of classes from several itinerant teachers, he was mostly self-educated.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:14pmIt’s a good thing the protests in Houston TX are not like what we are seeing around the rest of the country…I would have started shooting by now!
Report Post »Mahakala
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:10pmEnough is enough. Freedom of speech and the right to assemble does no give you the right to occupy and the break laws. Time to bring the hammer down on the useful idiots.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:01pmI say quit fooling around and start shooting the commie bastards
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:49pmThings are SO much better now that the fuerher has the reins.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:36pmthis country has lost its testicles. grow a pair and get rid of these clowns. they are occupying the news the streets and need to be occupying jail cells instead
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:45pmThis is a “potentail” (a Liberal word used to inspire Feat)… Bank Robbery! And, Charges are not made, because the Liberals are In Charge at all levels.
Report Post »Red Barr 13
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:01pmSend those commies to Cuba.
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:35pmLock these bums up and throw away the key already, let them “occupy” a 9‘ x 9’ cell for a while!
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:38pmBERBEL73…………………….. i wouldn’t even give them a jail cell. put them in military 2 man pup tents, inside a very high razor wire enclosure. give them a blanket and c-rations to eat. make them work on chain gang like work gangs picking up litter, cleaning public bathrooms, mowing lawns in public spaces, you get the picture. the idea of arresting them and then releasing them to make a court appearance is ridiculous. they have to be taught a very harsh lesson. break the law, pay the price…………………………………..
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:32pmTwo comments:
1. California is broke. There is no more money for funding universities. Get a job or join the military for the new GI Bill tution.
2. Willow Curless, 63, is my age. Which means she graduated from high school in 1966. I wonder if her first name was really Willow or did she pick it up at the commune.
This convinces me that people in California really do have water supply laced with LSD.
Report Post »Red Barr 13
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:58pmThis is an example of the left going crazy. When will the liberal “air heads” wakeup, face the facts the OWS are terrorist, and deal with them as terrorist.
Report Post »defilade
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:05pmWhere is the Like button at
Report Post »SkylitWolf
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:27pmoccupy a jail cell.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:30pm“give us back what you stole”? Really now? Any tax payers, home owners and investors in that group of protesters? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:31pmand just once I want to see someone tear the bandana off one of these cretins’ faces. What are they protecting Their good name and reputation? LOL….
Report Post »skitrees
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:21pmAVENGERK: I agree with you 100% on the “face mask” thing. The good guys NEVER wear bandannas!
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:24pmTime to open up one of the closed military bases and turn it into a prision for all those occupy people. They will have a place to occupy and will not be bothering any one else.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:29pmBest idea yet. Or tell them they are going to go on a OWS cruise for all there “hard work” and let them land on Gitmo.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:35pmlove the cruise idea but mine would dock them in a fun peace loving muslim country
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:44pmFingerprint em make em cross the Rio Grande.
Report Post »boiz
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:23pm“There should be a way for anyone who wants to go to college if they choose to,”
There is a way…..WORK through it!
Report Post »stoptheliesbho
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:11pmoh, how about the lovely question he posed about how prisons get more “spending” than universities do? i’m sorry – we NEED to spend money to KEEP rapists and murderers behind bars. we don’t need to KEEP you in college by spending money on iPads and MacBooks and your liberal-a$$ education. take what you’re given, and be grateful! if you want more, work WITH your university’s donor program for it. don’t expect it to just be handed to you!
Report Post »SmallGovBigGuns
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:19pmhahahaha do these people not realize most of the banks paid back the bail out money plus intrest?!? they didnt steal it the government forced them to take it and they paid it back much quicker than expected. bail out is still wrong but cmon protesters pull ur head out of soro’s butt
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:28pmand of course nothing says “credible” like taking a leak in the corner of a bank that you’re protesting.
Report Post »These are nothing but churlish, misguided toddlers that have no control over their complusions they just “poo and wee” whereever the urge takes them.
Let San Francisco and Berkeley ferment in this debacle..they’ll get no pity from me.
And speaking of Berzerkley….Obama’s energy secretary, Berkeley professor and “best and brightest” Steven Chu is testifying before congress today on his involvement with Solyindra….this should be a hoot…popcorn anyone?
Founding Father2
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:18pmYou have to wonder that since this is funded by the unions, if they are pushing the protesters towards companies that have declined the ‘opportunity’ to unionize. http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/nov/ows_unions_pay.html
The banks have always denied the unions trying to unionize them and now they are being persecuted for it.
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:11pmlooters takers OPM
Report Post »the new communism,
and of course followed by firing squads, the old communism.
PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:06pmAll these people are sucking eveything that has not yet been suck out of these Cities by the corrupt elite Unions. Don’t they know they will have the same effect on the economy as what they are protesting. HA, HA to them…there will be nothing left…Who dies first? The useful idiots will die before the Republic of the USA does. I hope the police have enough sense to start making lists of these people when they are arrested….The American Terrorists Occupy…This is what Communism looks like.
Report Post »nobummer12
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:05pmThe guy in the first picture looks to drugged up to know where he is.
Report Post »MMSands
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:02pmWhy would anyone want to live in California? Anyone in their right mind, anyway.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:54pmMedical marijuana?
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:01pmI don’t think anyone of those twits has enough money to put in a bank. Mommy and daddy does though.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:00pmHey idiots, who do you think put all that money in that bank? The real 99%! Not the 1% of you broke losers.
Report Post »dangmc
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:32pmI couldn’t have said it better myself!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:33pmThat’s why I ask when they say “give us back what you stole”…any tax payers, home owners, business men or investors among them? Anyone? Beuller?
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:58amGoing into a bank and demanding money that is not in your account? Isn’t that attempted bank robbery??
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:10pmExactly .. and look bandanas over their faces … LOCK THEM UP IN A FED PEN!
TEA!
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:14pmThese idiots don’t care. All they want to do is cause chaos. Disrupt the average American. Come occupy my work and I will occupy my foot up your a.s.s. Simple as that.
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