By my count, there’ve been
1011 arrests so far — and I’ve just been watching the live stream. photo via.
Breaking News is confirming this.
Watch the #OccupyWallStreet protests on the Brooklyn Bridge live. According to Evan Fleischer, the arrest count is 24 and probably going to increase.
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The protests are fascinating because of the focus on naming the people getting arrested. “WHAT’S YOUR NAME!?!?” All of these protesters know they’re on camera. All of these protesters know that keeping information as open as possible is the best possible thing they can do for their cause. A child just got arrested, BTW.
Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Other locked arms and proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway. The latter were arrested.A NYPD police spokesman • Discussing the arrests of 400 protesters (EDIT: This number jumped significantly from an earlier version of this story — from 50 to 400) on the Brooklyn Bridge earlier today, during the Occupy Wall Street protests, which are starting to pick up some steam (along with union support). Witnesses say that police used orange netting to surround and control the movements of protesters, and those arrested were taken away on three separate buses. source (via • follow)
The ongoing meme around these protests has been a lack of coverage. Today, to us at the very least, it seems like we’re reaching a moment where the protests might finally leap over the edge and become a bigger story. Or will it? We just did a check of the coverage, and it looks like while it’s getting relatively big play right now on various news sites, other sites are playing this current news story fairly small on the front page. Click through to the jump to see a breakdown.
1. Where are all these people being held?
2. Those who are still in lockup will be there until Monday, as there are no arraignments in NYC on Sundays.
3. I wish they found a protester to quote who isn’t at an Ivy League graduate school. She chose to go there.
Yeah. Regarding 1: according to the NYT reporter who was arrested earlier today, “I got let go. After hours on police bus. Most ppl still handcuffed on buses. Trying to find space for us in precincts.”
According to AP, NYPD gave citations for disorderly conduct and let go a majority of protesters.
We’re reminded of the point we made earlier this week about a “hook,” something to push the story in a direction that made it worthy of stronger coverage. 700+ people getting arrested all at once, protesting something they believe in? That sounds like a pretty good hook to us.
(Source: brooklynmutt)
Police Gave Warnings at Bridge, Videos Show
City Room: N.Y.P.D. Video of Occupy Wall Street protest - 1 (by nytcityroom)
Huh. Well that’s interesting. But at the same time, it’s totally understandable if a ton of people didn’t hear this — those chants were super-loud and it was hard to make out what the police officer said even in the video.
There’s NYPD brass with guns on buses saying ‘Move the bus, this bus is now under the control of the NYPD. What room to protest is there? It’s not a transit supervisor you’re dealing with.New York Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen • Discussing the way that the Brooklyn Bridge Occupy Wall Street arrests went down, particularly how the NYPD commandeered buses to arrest protesters en masse. The union is seeking injunctions (preliminary and permanent) against the NYPD to prevent them from doing this again. “The actions of the NYPD on Oct. 1, 2011, amounted to a seizure of the bus drivers,” the union’s lawyer, Arthur Schwartz, claimed in court. Will be curious to see how this goes. source (via • follow)
» The second notable set of Brooklyn Bridge arrests: In something of a return to its roots for the Occupy movement, a number of protesters got arrested while attempting to head towards the Brooklyn Bridge, which mimics a protest from during the early part of the Occupy movement, in which over 700 people got arrested by the NYPD for walking on the iconic bridge. But the tone during today’s “Day of Action” protests was different — those who got arrested did so for sitting at the base of the bridge, while many others stuck to the pedestrian path, staying off the road.
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