NYPD block off whole JPMorgan building to arrest three teens

[redqueen]

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/nypd_block_off_whole_jpmorgan_building_to_arrest_three_teens/singleton/?mobile.html

The entire 60 floors of JPMorgan Chase’s downtown New York office building were temporarily blocked off Wednesday so that three high-schoolers could be arrested, according to a news release from anti-corruption activists.

The students were staging a sit-in protest at the bank headquarters, “demanding full disclosure of the bank’s anonymous political expenditures,” reported an announcement from 99Rise, the anti-corruption group of which the three young people are members. “The students, who delivered a petition to the bank over three weeks ago articulating their demand, refused to leave the bank’s premises until the requested information was handed over to the public. The bank instead chose to shut down the entire 60 floor building have them arrested,” the release read. A live Twitter feed from the group reporting on the small sit-in noted that police set up barricades around the building, closing entrances to the public.

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http://www.99rise.org/press_release_october_24_2012

Three High School Students Arrested in Sit-In at JPMorgan Chase, Banking Skyscraper Completely Shut Down to Public

Students Demand Full Disclosure of All Secret Political Spending in Run Up to Most Expensive Election In History

(New York, NY, October 24)—Alarmed by the billions of dollars of secret money flooding into the political system to influence voters this election cycle, three high school students sat in at JPMorgan Chase in lower Manhattan today, demanding full disclosure of the bank’s anonymous political expenditures. The students, who delivered a petition to the bank over three weeks ago articulating their demand, refused to leave the bank’s premises until the requested information was handed over to the public. The bank instead chose to shut down the entire 60 floor building and have them arrested.

“I’m risking arrest today because I’m fed up with the politics as usual,” said Emilie Hirsh, a high school senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School. “The way we finance elections is broken. Both sides are dependent on the donations of corporations and the super-rich, and that means that their preferences take precedent over the needs of ordinary Americans like me, regardless of who ends up in office. I’m prepared to get arrested in hopes of inspiring other frustrated Americans to join me in pushing for change.”

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[virgogal]

1. They were trespassing---should have stuck to city sidewalks.

[upaloopa]

2. Ever hear of "Bug The bourgeoisie"?

By your post it looks like they did a good job of it.

[naaman fletcher]

3. Of course,

Still this is a good example of how totally out of control the police have gotten in this country. Three teenagers? Just walk in and cuff them for christ's sake.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Sounds Like the Protestors Succeeded Beyond their Wildest Dreams

They could not possibly have disrupted JPMorgan nearly so much without the help of New York's "finest".