‘More Than 100’ Protesters at ‘Occupy Boston’ Arrested Early Tuesday
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Jonathon M. Seidl
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BOSTON (The Blaze/AP) — A slew of protesters from the Occupy Boston movement were arrested early Tuesday after they ignored warnings to move from a downtown greenway near where they have been camped out for more than a week, police said.
The Associated Press puts the number at over 50, while the local Fox affiliate reports the number to be “more than 100:”
Police spokesman Jamie Kenneally said the arrests began about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday and were mostly for trespassing.
The protesters, part of the national Occupy Wall Street movement, had tried to expand from their original site in Dewey Square to a second site across the street, along the Rose Kennedy Greenway. A local conservancy group recently planted $150,000 worth of shrubs along the greenway and officials said they were concerned about damage.
Boston police had warned protesters for several hours that they would have to return to Dewey Square, where a tent city has been steadily growing, and issued leaflets saying protesters could not occupy the greenway.
In fact, video posted on YouTube shows police warning the protesters. In response, the protesters simply chant, “The people, united, will never be defeated:”
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Early Tuesday, about 10 police officers patrolled the greenway, some with dogs. Protesters who went to a nearby police station to bail people out did not find anyone there, and by 4 a.m. they had returned to their encampment to discuss how to raise $4,000 in bail money.
Boston resident Matt Hollander, 25, said a group of veterans carrying American flags were standing in between police and the protesters when officers advanced on them. One veteran, he said, was pushed to the ground and a group of protesters fell in a heap.
“If they wanted to arrest us they could have done that without pushing us…without tramping the flag,” Hollander said.
Another protester, Shawdeen Vatan, 21, of Arlington, Mass., said she was not surprised at what happened.
“We’re being seen as a legitimate organization,” she said. “People are panicking and trying to get us out of here.”
Police did not report any arrests from an earlier standoff, where hundreds of students from 10 area colleges marched through downtown Monday, briefly confronting police while attempting to hang a banner on a Boston bridge.
The protesters gathered on Boston Common and marched in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse carrying signs that read “Apathy isn’t working, Raise your voice,“ and chanting slogans like ”Fund education, not corporations“ and ”We got sold out. Rich got bailed out.”
They later marched to a Charlestown bridge near the city’s North End neighborhood hoping to hang a banner.
Police blocked the bridge, which was closed for about an hour before the protesters dispersed. Two demonstrators appeared to scuffle with officers during the standoff. Police did not immediately report any arrests.
The protesters on Wall Street and in Boston and other cities have described themselves at the “99 percent” – referring to what they say are the vast number of Americans struggling to pay their bills while the income gap between the rich and middle class widens.
In Seattle, participants in a protest in downtown Westlake Park said late Monday that they were told the park is closed and they may be arrested if they remain.
Sharla Laurin, an Occupy Seattle peace and safety facilitator, said announcement was made over a loudspeaker. Protesters heard from the mayor‘s office that there weren’t supposed to be any arrests but from Seattle police on the scene that there might be.
Police spokesman Detective Mark Jamieson said he had no information about any arrests.
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Comments (87)
djmaine
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:46am??99%…fuzzymath??
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:54amThese so-called vets are part of the problem. Malcontents that probably received less than honorable discharges. Most of them are probably not even US military vets.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:38amyea its more like .99%. These morons don’t know what they are there for, they only know they are being funded by the economic terrorists of the left and should be sent to gitmo and never seen again.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:26amYou will see very few flags there. Rightfully so. Flags and people who feel the need to cover their faces do not go together…
Report Post »Most of the protestors have parents who are just glad to see them get out of their basements for a while.
CottonMPG
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:52amThey need to do the same in NYC. It’s private property, tell them to leave and drag them off to jail if they won’t.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:52pmYou could send them all to Greenland and the US wouldn’t even notice they were gone.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:53pmVets… sure. Some morons that no doubt got the Big Chicken Dinner and now soil the military by claiming to be vets while disobeying and resisting Police.
Report Post »steveh931
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 2:58pmNo math required, 9% of the general population are Union Workers and they are behind the protests. 99% is just a outright lie.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 3:11pm99% is everyone but the top 1% with the money.
99% is everyone being manipulated by the top 1%
99% is everyone that wants to see something change
99% is everyone
I am 99%, you are 99%
Tea Party members are 99%
And, news flash, there are liberals in the US Military. You don’t have to be a bible quoting, science fearin, jesus lovin, proverb speakin, deer huntin, neck burning, southern cookin, cousin marryin Tea Partier to be in the Military and love your country.
AND PS.
Who is more patriotic? The 100 people that don American Flag suspenders and gather to listen to Palin talk for 15 minutes, then leave to catch the last airing of Glenn Beck before falling asleep to wheel of fortune? or the thousands around the country that are rallying day in and day out, non stop, until their country rights itself?
Who cares more for their cause?
Report Post »RejectFalseIcons
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 3:55pmThey don’t realize that the protesters actively want to turn the country they served into the countries they fought. Either that or they served with Kerry.
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 5:37pmhow is it that the protesters hate corporations…but are demanding jobs? our crooked university system has forced these young idiots out into the streets to protest that which they know nothing of. sad.
Report Post »originalthought
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:42amPoor people could not afford the type of tents that are pictured above. Rich kids pretending they are brave. Next comes the ski masks and Palastinian scarfs. Ashame they cann’t find a pregnant woman to stone.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:25pmWhen you get evicted from your hours all you have left is your tent.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:39amIt’s simple, really. If you don’t want to fall on the ground, don’t resist arrest, but, in the first place, do what an officer of the law tells you to do. You CAN protest in peace. The Tea Party does it all the time.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:15amHow so?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:17amOk, ok, sarcasm. Thanks.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:27pmThe Tea Party doesn’t protest anymore. They go to political concerts with flag hats and listen to right wing celebrities spit gibberish.
I agree you should listen to officers, but if you have been following these protests at all you’d realize many of the officers are over stepping their bounds. There needs to be accountability on both ends or else it could turn south.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:33amWhere I am there is only a couple of dozen but swells to 100 on the weekend. Then the football game and rain came and it went back to a couple dozen.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:25amIt was pathetic here in St Pete Florida. There were a total of 18 protesters that only hung out for an our and a half. Idiots.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:47amI for one would like for the police to check and see how many of these idiots are
collecting Welfare, disabilitty, or unemployment. We are probably funding half these
Idiots to stay out of work so they can protest. I wish they would take all their names
and make sure they report what they are being paid by Soro’s and others so they
may for the first time ever get to pay taxes. They may not want to destroy the shrubbry
if they paid taxes and knew they had paid for them. They don’t care what they destroy
because they have only taken from the system and never paid anything into it.
I too am mad at the CEO”S, Banks, Barney Frank and Dodd etc. I think they all need to
Report Post »go to jail. But this is not the way to make it happen.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:24amLooks to me this is becoming something of an Occupy Jail movement. :)
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:36pmYes, Just putting more money into the system that they are crying about.. Ironic to say the least.
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:22amJump em like a frog,
Report Post »Whoop em like a dog,
Stick em like a hog,
and hit em with a log!
wisehiney
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:20amAll of your demands have already been met in cuba and venezuela. Not one rich person. Move there.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:14amWHY do they want to be part of the WELFARE CLASS? Leave the job CREATORS ALONE. Become ONE yourself, if you are jealous and envious of what THEY have. This is still AMERICA where you have the SAME opportunity as everyone else. Look at 50cent from prison to MILLIONAIRE! Do you HATE him, too? Selective HATE doesn’t make sense. You have to HATE your President and half the people leading your so called “movement ” if that’s the case. MORONS!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:11amDo these guys have permits for these activities? The group issued the permit should be responsible for the cost of cleaning up the mess. Libs are such pigs you know.
Report Post »Beckett
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:08amWhat a bunch of hysterical cry babies.
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:14amIts the new “flea” party. A bunch of parasites looking for a get rich quick deal, sucking off of those that have thrived and been successful. Or, Fleabaggers, if you will.
Report Post »Love_John_Galt
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:08amFLEA baggers!! Great one!
FLEA – Fundamentally Limited Economic Awareness
Report Post »FLEA – Foolish Lazy Entitlement Addicts
wisehiney
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:57amY’all raised these ivy league idiots boston. Deal with it. hahahahahahahhahahaha!
Report Post »P.S. Continue to send your best here to the good life in NC.
Ex_Masshole
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:01amI heard that!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:54amYep, put ‘em on ice and give ’em a shower with a fire hose.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:49amthis has happen before. i think it was after ww1 when veterans went to Washington and erected a tent city on the white house grounds or the Mall or both. they wanted jobs because unemployment was so high. but they wern’t commies these occupy people are commies or Socialist. with Obama in the white house he has given them a voice and some power. he will use them to futher his agenda along. Obama wants to side step congress and will use this to do so. the longer this continues the more power it will gain. Obama and Peelosi et al have blessed this.
Report Post »CIAtroll
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:52amWall Street Czars depopulating the World
The leadership in the US, the Congress, the White House, and the Pentagon have been taken over by a shadow government – that shadow from Wall Street and the city of London. The US is bankrupt and is being carved up like a turkey by the globalists. Europe is too… the EU is just another region being dragged into slavery… like the US-Canada-Mexico, which is now undergoing unification. I cannot believe this global nightmare being rolled out.
Our soldiers are just being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan and given a death sentence as soon as they arrive. Our national guard, to protect our states from being overtaken by our own military, is being destroyed to make this global takeover easier. Black youth in the ghettoes are refusing to join the military. They are saying “it’s more dangerous in Iraq now than in the ghetto… We are staying home.”
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Bill Rowland
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 3:01pmThe tent city of WWI vets was for bonuses that they had been promised and for jobs. These cry babies don’t want jobs. They want the things that most of us worked for.
OMG – Psalm 109″8
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:46amI am glad that there is still rules and if you don’t follow them you can go to the clinker and help donate money to the city for your bail. Good job officers.
Report Post »IamNotHuman
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 3:22pmIt’s getting very close now my friends, only a matter of time…as you say. Hahaaa! Oh yes there will be blood flowing through the streets, as you and I can both clearly see it is only just the beginning of the end now America.
AND I CAN”T WAIT!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:45amGee these folk are truly like the Tea Party…NOT
Tea Party
-Love our country trying to build it back
-Have a message
-No known arrests, repectful of our state, federal and local laws
-Gather in an orderly and repectful manner
-Repect our law enforcement and propety
-Leave their gather place in cleaner than recieved
-Unpaid
Occupy Our Cites:
-Want either socialist or communist type rule..But each protester has a different message..so what is
it?
-Have unknown message…signs given to paid protesters from whatever groups
-Hundreds being arrested..no respect for law, propety or decent behavior
-Gather in packs…appear to have no time-line of when they will leave area
-Laugh at our laws and law enforcement, using vehicles taxpayer paid vehicles as port-o-lets or even
worse the city streets. Block major acess roads…Brooklyn Bridge.
-Doing millions of dollars of damage to taxpayer’s public lands and private property
-Are funded by organizations such Soros. Micheal Moore and Labor Unions..look on CraigsList..jobs
to occupy $600.00 a week!
Gee these groups are such alike…NO WAY
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:55am$600.00 per week? Dang…. maybe I can get a second job…… NOT
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:45amDestroying Nature Conservancy Shrubbery Contributes To Global Warming. Crime Against The People! Oh, yes, punishable by firing squad in the new regime.
O=0
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:41amy’all know this is exactly what Van Jones wanted, bottom up, top down, inside out. man when they make plans they carrie them out. i wonder how they pulled this off. and Obama gave them his blessing while on TV for all to see and hear. maybe it started in the liberal colleges and put on the web for all the young people to see. but how did they get them to actually do it? all you parents paying for college is your child there?
Report Post »Worriedone
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:36amarrest more, so the city’s will be able to meet their budgets. There is court costs, fines and attorney fees. I think these cities will be able to balance their budgets in no time. I love the smell of Union money in the morning. Lets keep on flooding the main stream media on what the Blaze and GBTV reports.
Report Post »checkit
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:46am…I think these cities will be able to balance their budgets in no time….
Yea, and it is coming from the soros people kinda of ironic, but Funny. Is that called slapping you back in the face… LOL… soros spends money to dismantle the U.S but then it goes to aid a cities growth. Sounds good you just need some useful idiots, oh wait they are there… keep getting arrested sheep.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:34amOh yea… this will look great on your Resume!
Report Post »BrandyWilson
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:31am….And now it begins…..cleaning up the trash!
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:02amUnion jobs?
Report Post »Rocky_biskit
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:30amThey attempted to close down the Zacham Bridge around 4 – 5 pm. This bridge is the MAIN entry/exit way to Boston,s north shore. I dont think they realize how dangerous this would be in the event of an emergency.
While I agree with a lot of their complaints, I do however take issue with the methods that they are using.
They need to GROW-UP and stop allowing the Communists to use them as “tools”!!
Report Post »checkit
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:47amIt wouldn’t be to good if someone had a loved one that needed emergency medical attention and needed an ambulance or fire truck and the road was blocked.
Report Post »((GB)) FAN
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:22amhow long till they start to burn things?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:26amI give it until Saturday, when they are planning the national and world wide uprising protests; then be ready for the fires to come, and the blood to commense flowing in the street (note, worse case scene) barring a miracle from above happening.
Watch for more of the media to hyper-run with the “fabricated facts” of “peaceful, non violent protest being ruthlessly crushed by the strong arm of the law…”
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:38amSomehow the media will say the protests were peaceful until Tea Party members sabotaged it. These ruthless Communists will stop at nothing, their lies and slander will be “off the charts”.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:41amHow many of them have been trained by Obama’s good friend (and ghost writer) Bill Ayers to make bombs? Far fetched? Wait and see.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:31amYou will see thwe civilian population taking matters into their own hands to defend life and property.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:22am.
Report Post »If they have a budget shortfall, they could set their bail at a $1,000,000,000.00 each, after all they work for George “Spooky Dude” Soros……….
WireWizard
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:21amObama Tools
Report Post »donflow
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:31amObama Fools
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:33amIn part, ultimatly they are also tools for Soros that can be disposed of at will; Soros only needs to keep the pressure up on the nation until we collapse — and under Obama it will happen sooner than later.
What still suprises me is how badly these “useful idiots” in which are included Progressives, Radical and Socialist and Anarchist groups and people, are played by Soros as well. He is funding so diverse of a group of people across the board, that he can betray one or all to the rest and have them fall, as needed, and still win in the end.
These protests will soon turn violent, though personally I pray they do not do so.
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