Police Arrest 200 Occupy L.A. Protesters & Clear Out Encampment
- Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:51am by
Billy Hallowell
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LOS ANGELES (The Blaze/AP) – Dozens of officers in riot gear flooded down the steps of Los Angeles City Hall just after midnight and started dismantling the two-month-old camp two days after a deadline passed for campers to leave the park.
Officers in helmets and wielding batons and guns with rubber bullets converged on the park from all directions with military precision and began making arrests after several orders were given to leave. Defiant Los Angeles campers who were chanting slogans as the officers surrounded the park, booed when an unlawful assembly was declared. Police say more than 200 people were detained during the massive raid.
(caution: language warning)
In the first moments of the raid, officers tore down a tent and tackled a tattooed man with a camera on City Hall steps and wrestled him to the ground. Someone yelled “police brutality.”
Below, see one woman sob as her boyfriend is arrested by authorities:
Teams of four or five officers moved through the crowd making arrests one at a time, cuffing the hands of protesters with white plastic zip-ties. A circle of protesters sat with arms locked, many looking calm and smiling.
AP
Opamago Cascini, 29, said the night had been a blast and he was willing to get arrested. ”It’s easy to talk the talk, but you gotta walk the walk,” Cascini said.
Police used a cherry picker to pluck five men from trees. Two others were in a tree house – one wore a crown and another taunted police with an American flag. Below, see footage of what may be the very tree house that police had to contend with:
About 1,200 Los Angeles officers staged for hours outside Dodger Stadium before the raid. They were warned that demonstrators might throw everything from concrete and gravel to human feces at them.
“Please put your face masks down and watch each other’s back,” a supervisor told them. “Now go to work.”
Before police arrived in large numbers, protesters were upbeat and the mood was almost festive. A protester in a Santa Claus hat danced in the street. A woman showed off the reindeer antlers she had mounted on her gas mask.
Some were smoking pot, some were carrying gas masks, others wore hoodies and had bandanas around their faces. Some protesters carried lit candles and held signs saying “Defend Occupy LA.”
Police Chief Charlie Beck said at an early Wednesday news conference that the arrests were mainly peaceful and there were no injuries. Beck says an initial search of the camp turned up no drugs or weapons.
More than 1,000 police officers raided the camp and dismantled what was left of the tent city that stood for two months.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa raised public safety and health concerns in announcing plans for the eviction last week.
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mbriz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:49amWhat an incredibly shallow, misinformed bunch you are. Amazing.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:10amYes..apparently our eyes are lying to us.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:17amAt least we smell nice.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 12:06pmNo drugs or weapons were found? The most disturbing thing about these “occupy protests” is how much the cops are covering for the protestors.
The police UNIONS are sympathetic to the UNION members who protest. I recall some idiot on another article claiming we shouldn’t blame the UNION members, but it’s the UNION members who provide cover…I mean “solidarity”…for their UNION brothers and sisters.
The Nazi Party was really the Nazi Worker’s Party. Don’t forget that. Some idiots claim Adolf Hitler was anti-UNION. No, he was only anti-other-UNIONs. He forced people to join only his UNION – the Nazi Worker’s Party.
UNIONs have never had a place in our country, that’s a lie made up by UNIONs. They’ve never provided anything useful. Just like the “Civil Rights Movement”.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 12:12pmThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are often credited with the economic and political advances of the black population in the U.S.
The percentage of black families with incomes below the poverty line fell most sharply between 1940 and 1960, going from 87% to 47%, before either of those acts and well before “affirmative action” began in the 1970s.
The decline in poverty did not accelerate after the Acts, but actually slackened. The poverty rate declined from 47% to 30% during the decade of the 1960s and only from 30% to 29% between 1970 and 1980.
Still, Progressive Socialists claim the civil rights laws of the 1960s and the War on Poverty programs of that same decade are responsible for blacks’ rise from poverty. The same historical trend can be seen in terms of the rise of blacks into professional, managerial, and other high-level occupations.
Progressive Socialists control the narrative, kids. That’s why so many black Americans credit Democrats instead of themselves. That’s why they subscribe to collectivist nonsense instead of rugged individualism.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 1:51pmJAYCEN
Report Post »The unions are the new Nazi and communist parties, we need to destroy them. I think we need a midnight raid on union officials homes. Remember the night of the long knives, only in reverse. Where’s McCarthy when you need him.
motonutt
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 1:56pmWheres Kurt Russel when you need him?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 2:18pm@qzak491
I’ve been studying Fabians a lot lately, since they’re intertwined with the Progressive Socialists in the U.S. They write extensively on Labor Unions, and you’d be shocked (or maybe not) to see the history of violence that UNIONs have not just in America, but across the globe.
Here in the U.S., the Supreme Court has held that the UNIONs can act violently against their employers (vandalism, assault, and destruction of property), so long as the acts are committed in pursuit of “UNION labor contracts”. It’s disgusting.
Download a free copy of “A History of Trade Unionism”. Scary stuff.
I do understand the reference to the Night of Long Knives. The night that when Hitler had 400 of his own Brown Shirts leaders rounded up and executed or imprisoned. I agree that the UNIONs seem to be President Obama’s “Brown Shirts” in America. Some of us have been waiting for him to initiate his own Night of Long Knives against them. It worked for Hitler. Hitler ordered the round up due to fears of a overthrow plot, but it worked in the public. People were thrilled when Dear Leader got rid of the thugs making their lives miserable.
If Conservatives beat Obama to the punch, I have no doubt Liberals would also applaud, but what would happen to Conservatives? Would it fracture us? Could those who participated live with themselves?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 2:20pm@motonutt
Ah, the rugged individualism of the great Snake Pliskin. A true hero.
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 2:49pm@mbriz
Report Post »” Obviously, you’re not a golfer!”
Freedomtothink
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 5:22pmThe occupy movement brought all of this dislike and distrust upon themselves. They started their protests by wearing masks, raping children and young women, dealing illegal drugs, threatening to hurt people that disagree with them, urinating in public, and threatening to harm social conservatives. The fact is I wouldn’t turn my back on one of these punks for t30 seconds at a local hot dog stand. Whatever happens to them is probably a lot less than they really deserve.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:46amDon’t you adore and revel in how this movement (choose your own pun) is ending? We didn’t need to slap on the full body army and patriotically, dutifully get the M-16s and start a massacre leading to civil war and martial law and permanent dictatorship. Nope! We just heckled and lawfulled it out until the weather and the PR ruined the movement. We laughed at it. We looked carefully at their very flimsy pointless message. And it ended up as — splat.
As the old Loverboy song says, “It’s over. It’s over…”
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:16amThe beautiful part is OWS’s organizers were clamoring for the tea parties to get involved and the tea parties let the left be the left and remained right out of it. I applaud the tea parties for their intelligence and strategic thinking. Make no mistake, this same OWS crowd will pop up again next year to disrupt tea party and GOP events. We cannot allow them to provoke an incident, they and their allies in the marxstream media are salivating for an incident to exploit. Public support for OWS has evaporated. They did not get the popular uplift they believed they’d get so as history has shown us…they’ve got nothing left to do but disrupt people and provoke incidents. They want trouble to happen because they know the media is on their side. Don’t give OWS what it wants, stay vigilant.
Report Post »aragona
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:39amI absolutely agree. The main purpose of OWS is to escalate violence, draw the TEA party in and cause civil unrest between the two groups. That will never happen because the TEA party represents the best of America – family, work ethic, morality, just to name a few attributes.
Report Post »TheePolitinator
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:28amYou all won’t be cheering in glee when this starts happening to all of us. This is drill practice for Martial law and nothing less.
Report Post »cargojack
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:57amWhat an incredible job last night by the LAPD. The thin blue line that protects American society from anarchy and revolution that would destroy our Republic. Thank you.
Report Post »ronaldreaganthegreat
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:54amHazmat suits, weeeeeeeeee weeeeeeeeeeeeeee weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:20amApparently there were containers full of feces around the site. Officers complained about the stench. These idiots of OWS can’t even fathom the disease they could have wrought on themselves and the neighboring community. Seriously just how bad is our education system that these idiots can’t even process the idea that they were creating serious health hazards? I don’t care about them, these idiots of OWS are beyond help or hope, they are lost..I care about the neighboring communities forced to endure them and their recklessness.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:53amIt will only make them stronger, the police are actually helping the cause. Power to the people.
Report Post »quickstudy
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:06amI’d say the police helped them all right! They searched and found NO drugs?! I’d say they ignored any drugs they found. The protestors should thank the police. Good thing civilized people have trusted their power with the police.
Report Post »Theophilus
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 12:01pmMbriz, You inhumanely forget that cops are also people. Are police officers not also part of your so called 99%? Perhaps you should shift your support toward THE PEOPLE who are actually against rapes, destruction of property, hatred of people solely based on their financial status, and pooping in the streets, if you would truly like to see your society advance in a sane direction. I hope the cops continue to shut them down. And thus I say, “Power to the people”
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 3:04pm@mbriz
Report Post »Stronger? Have you even been to the Occupy LA camp? Or any other OWS protest for that matter? You might want to reconsider who this is strengthening.
SanDiegoCountyCitizen
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:44amI guess these “vagrants without a cause” will just have to go back to Venice beach to continue their non-productive lives. “Got some spare change?”
Report Post »caladesi
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:21amso….let’s go in front of the police, sit down and meditate on this….the government owes me nothing and I owe my country everything….repeat 1,000 times or until you believe it!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:43amThese were Americans holding up an American flag and the police arrested them. What ever happened to the land of the free. As Americans these folks had a right to be in the park.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:13amTurkey13 . . Save your breath. The Constitution means nothing to people on The Blaze. Don’t take my word for it. Just read their comments. You’ll see an amazing indifference to the principles and values that founded, defined, and defended this great nation.
No, sadly, conservatives are interested in their narrow and selfish ideas alone. Dress differently, think differently, talk differently, pray differently than they do and you’re a threat to the little cardboard box they call their life.
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:14amturkey13
this is called breaking the law if you are holding an American flag or not… why don’t you go to your city hall and attempt to build a rubbish tree house and hassle everyone that comes by and see how that works out for you… lol….
Stand Strong America
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:19amTurkey- Let me break this down. I guess you don’t watch the news. How many people have been hurt, raped, abused, by the owsholes? How many businesses have been shutdown, vandalized, or robbed by the owsholes? They were people holding a flag?? They stand for nothing America was founded on.. Washington did not defeat the British by the use of free speech. He Shot Them.
Report Post »TEA
mbriz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:42amyes that is how brainwashing works.Now repeat after me, Glen Beck is loony tunes,Glen Beck is loony tunes. Now repeat that a thousand times a day, and there might be hope for you.
Report Post »Canine111
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:16amNo actually they had no right to be in the park after 10:30PM.. It’s a LAW.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:22amThat’s right TURKEY13…listen to YOU’RE SENSLESS…because he knows which city laws deserve to be broken and which should be observed.
Report Post »SoCaLCapitalist
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:49amThe land is for everyone not just a few occupy LA clowns. They have a right to voice their opinion but that land is partially paid for by my tax dollars to. So get your dirty smelly belongings off of it. Go stand and chant. But block my right of way, or attempt to block my voice and I’ll start by laughing in your face. But if these occupy idiots attempt to take what is mine and injure me and then it’s my life or yours.
As for now. I just want the LAPD and Sheriffs Dept to start suing the leaders of OCCUPY LA in civil court. Start using injuctions against them and slap restraining orders on them. Civil injunctions hold up against street gangs. They will do the job vs smelly hippies and communists
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 12:47pm@Turkey
Report Post »Really? “A Right?“ A ”right” to violate the rules for usage established by those who established the park? A “right” to establish a residence there? A “right” to litter? A “right” to urinate and defecate there? A “right” to impede others? What sort of ideological blinders are you wearing? Surely you don’t actually believe any of the above…, I mean, have you somehow missed the fact that (in spite of what the occupiers think) the 99% actually prefer civilized society to rabble?
sasquatch08
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 2:07pm@TURKEY13
By that logic I can do whatever I want as long as I wave an American flag while doing it.
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 3:19pm@NONsensei
It’s nice to see you making friends. I have friends too! Friends that I don’t feel obligated to agree with and in many ways are very different. Individuals, you know, but we do have one thing in common. We can agree to disagree and still be the best of friends. That is what’s beautiful about America. Carry on with your divisive ways on the Blaze. Good day.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:21amThe view from the helicopter, I can thing of a few things I can do using two items, balloons and fresh contents from a septic tank. It be raining all up in here.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:22amthat is because you are of their calibre.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:54am“..keep ‘em moving, moving, moving….., though they’re disapproving, rawhide!
Report Post »Don‘t try to understand ’em, just rope and throw and brand ‘em….”
chazman
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:23am… OBAMMY’s army living in a tree, P-I-S-S-I-N-G!!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:26amFunny!
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:19amI love how you improved on the rawhide troll’n jingle I use my friend!!!! Much better than what I was using.. love it… as a boy I so loved the show… thanks
Stand Strong America
Report Post »SomeRandomPerson
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:54amNa na na na, hey heeey, gooooodbye!!!!
Report Post »Southernsoul
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:50amAnd to follow the crowd… Why didn’t this happen the first time a tent peg was hammered into the ground?
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:27amEasy answer, it’s called the Democratic party… Ohammy and princes Nancy…
I know Jimmy Carter celebrated with a big bowl of peanuts as Ohammy’s approval rating fell below his yesterday.. now Ohammy has the lowest president in American history title and Jimmy is off the hook..lol
Stand Strong America
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:43amIt’s called freedom.
Report Post »skiz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:50amIf the OWS losers hate capitalizm so much how did every single one of them wind up with a $200 phone so they could record the police so called brutality? They live a Lie! Nothing is free. Nobody owes you anything. You must make you own way in this life. Go to another country, say Iran, and try this stuff you will be shot.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:47amBoy are you stupid, that’s all that can be said.
Report Post »agameofthrones
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:09amThe right to assemble should not be confused with the right to live indefinitely on land you do not own or rent and trash the place and do whatever you please, including public indecency, drug, use, rape, and violence. You are not entitled to anything other than life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Your rights end where mine begin. You never saw the Tea Party leaving this kind of filth behind or behaving this way. The had to get permits and then leave when the assembly was over. What is going on in these cities that allowed this in the first place?
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 3:30pm@mbriz
Report Post »Was that a complete thought, or just another comment to reach your quota?
Quality is better than quantity.
Please don’t just try to pick fights with empty words. Cynicism is not the way to have healthy debate; instead contribute to the discussion.
paleoman
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:48amThe DUNG patrol has arrived with brooms in hand, no wait I think thats a billy club maybe he’ll use that instead.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:48amThey should have done this about one DAY after it started, not 2 months.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:41amabout time! might i suggest you use your nightstick officer!
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:53amIs it true that OWS protesters make their own cheese?
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 2:36pm……….or the quart of blood technique. You do that move and a quart of blood will drop out of a mans body. LOL
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:39amLong past time this happened, at the least the police showed restraint in givng them so much time to vacate before cleaning the place out.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:30amThey should have hosed out those flea-infested ingrates weeks ago.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:27amIt should have happened 2 months ago. No one else gets this long to stay and protest but look who is supposedly running the country. The “Occupyer in Chief”.
Report Post »Timothy_Reid
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:31amI don’t like the Occupy movement anymore than anybody else with an ounce of common sense however, I wondering what it is you would like them arrested for?
Report Post »boiz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:07amTimothy_Reid – How about drug posession, failure to comply with law enforcement, public nudity, littering, creating a common nuisance…..
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:22amWith all of the laws in the People’s Republic of Kalifornia take your pick:
Vagrancy, destruction of public property, destruction of private property, public urination, public defecation, squatting, camping without a permit, protesting without a permit, resisting arrest, failure to comply with a court order of eviction, failure to construt a shelter to state code, failure to pay taxes on an occupied property, damage to a tree, interference with the habitat of the endangered one eyed flea……
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:21am.
Ya’ll know if cities would just arrest them and fine them $1,000 each they could make a kill’in…..
Can you say budget windfall………
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:20amThe hazmat team should take the OWS protester to the toxic waste site at yucca mountain.
Report Post »marthasusan40
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:17amThis is the best news of the morning…the cost is just another part of the plan to drain all the resources…
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:16amKudos to the officers in blue. They should have hosed down the protesters with water cannon, disinfectent and DDT prior to forcing them come in contact with these vermin. I would not want them to get fleas or the plauge. Makes on question ” What kind of soap is able to combat that level of filth when the officers get done?” It’s got to be some pretty strong stuff
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:28amSorry for the Typos and poor grammer: Please consider
Kudos to the officers in blue. The protesters should have hosed down the protesters with water cannon, disinfectent and DDT prior to forcing the police come in contact with these vermin. I would not want the officers to get fleas or the plauge. Makes one question ” What kind of soap is able to combat that level of filth that would rub off on the officers while they worked?” It’s got to be some pretty strong stuff.
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:35amLets try this again
Kudos to the officers in blue. The police or hazmat squad should have hosed down the protesters with water cannon, disinfectent and DDT prior to forcing the police come in contact with these vermin. I would not want the officers to get fleas or the plauge. Makes one question ” What kind of soap is able to combat that level of filth that would rub off on the officers while they worked?” It’s got to be some pretty strong stuff.
Sorry for my babbling
Report Post »boshando
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:42amHaha bro its the internet…a few spelling mistakes here and there are alright =)
Report Post »truthservices
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:02amI think thats probably the way Hitler taught his people to hate the jews, You would actually compare people to rats and bugs because they are doing what our constitution says should be done to an evil government? Whether you agree with them or not it’s their right.You sound like you have been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh. What is an acceptable form of protest to you? If you had a grievance with your country what would you think is acceptable? Are you aware that our prisident was just given the right to imprison American citizens without due process using our American troops
Report Post »without any explanation at all… Do you care? These are people not animals even though some people act insane sometimes. Those are the people they focus on in their propaganda stories to make the whole movement look bad.. Wake Up !!! Don’t be so gullible…….
Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:18amNo I don’t listen to Limbaugh. Funny guy but too narrow minded. The OWS and others are not accomplishing anything. There is so much good they could do with their time but they choose to sit around, smoke pot, avoid bathing, make pointless noise and be a scurge on society. By the way, this not comparable to Hitler. Hitler went after people who were contributing to society and made them villians. In this case, these people are in no way contributors. They a just slurping at the trough.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:24amAn acceptable form of protest: Have your say, leave the place looking exactly the way you found it or cleaner, and go home, with prejudice towards none. Then do something constructive to bring about a solution to the problem that will be a true benefit to your country (not just to you).
Complaining (en-masse) as the intended end-all is the venue of the feeble minded victim and of children; proposing a viable solution that strengthens the Republic and implementing it through legal means requires effort, time and thought and leads to real solutions as it must pass through the lens of the public consciousness, where, if it is well thought out idea based in logic and virtue, in line with the values of the society, it will change minds.
On the other hand if the solution is radical, superficial and weakens the Republic, out of line with the principles of the society in which it is proposed, the only eventual options will be failure or violence, borne of frustration. That is why the Occupy movement will become violent or fail. The viewpoints coming out of there such as forgiving all student loans, $20 minimum wage regardless of employment status and collapsing the Capitalistic system are all contrary to the culture of Americans.
If that is NOT their position then they need to get the hell out of the streets and figure out what they stand for, otherwise they will be defined deferencially by “the fringe”. Amorphism is great for free thought lousy for affecting chang
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:33am@truthservices
The constitution says you should rape multiple women, defecate on public property out in the open, camp on public property (that is not a campground), have sex in public and shoot up heroine?
I had no idea. Which amendment is that, I clearly missed something?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:06amNext time there is a Tea Party event in LA I expect to see the same line of Port-potties and other items provided by the government for FREE. No event costs should be incurred by the Tea Party at all.
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:14amI agree. I think that since they charged the tea party, the should either refund the money or charge each protester a % of the fees associated with the encampment. If they cant pay, they can sell their ipods, laptops, etc to get out or stay in jail.
Report Post »MJR
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:01amThey should take the 300,000 the occupiers have in the bank to pay for this mess, not he taxpayers money.
Report Post »shirelover
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:55amabout time
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