Occupy Atlanta | Police arrest protesters

[seacaves]

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution




Atlanta News 1:19 a.m. Wednesday, October 26, 2011


Occupy Atlanta | Police arrest protesters


By Christian Boone and Rhonda Cook

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Protesters had been ordered to leave the park. Those waiting to be arrested were sitting in a circle with their arms locked. Police starting handcuffing them with plastic handcuffs around 12:45 a.m. Many protesters would not get up on their own and some had to be dragged. Most protesters went peacefully.

Some of the people waiting to be arrested waved small American flags. About 40 to 50 people remained inside the park after midnight, including Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta), former Atlanta city councilman Derrick Boazman and Joe Beasley, the southern regional director of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Several hundred others were in the street, chanting and carrying signs. Fort was arrested around 1 a.m.

Motorcycle police moved in about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday and a helicopter circled overhead. Officers were also on horseback. Police went from tent to tent with flashlights, urging people to leave before a second warning was issued. Tents were removed from the park and placed on Peachtree Street.

Deputy Police Chief Calvin Moss announced at 11:52 p.m. Tuesday that the executive order allowing protesters to stay in the park has been revoked. Protesters were told to leave the park and any belongings left behind would be treated as abandoned property....

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/occupy-atlanta-police-arrest-1209963.html

[tiny elvis]

1. i was there saturday. the campers have been expecting this

people volunteered to risk arrest
volunteers were given a legal assistance number
this looks like there were more people there than there were on saturday

[bitchkitty]

2. Home.

I love Atlanta! They're making me proud!

[No Elephants]

3. Consistent so far. Every time I read a story like this, it's a city with a Democratic Mayor.

Boston, Oakland, Cincinnati, Albany, Chicago and now Atlanta.

Not sure why.

Maybe many more occupy protests are in cities with Democratic Mayors than in cities with Republican Mayors?

Might be an interesting research project for some writer.