How Zuccotti Park Became Zuccotti Prison: Creeping American Police State

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153235/how_zuccotti_park_became_zuccotti_prison%3A_creeping_american_police_state/

When I arrived at Zuccotti Prison one afternoon last week, the “park” was in its now-usual lockdown mode. No more tents. No library. No kitchen. No medical area. Just about 30 leftover protesters and perhaps 100 of New York’s finest as well as private-security types in neon-green vests in or around a dead space enclosed by more movable police fencing than you can imagine. To the once open plaza, there were now only two small entrances in the fencing on the side streets, and to pass through either you had to run a gauntlet of police and private security types.

The park itself was bare of anything whatsoever and, that day, parts of it had been cordoned off, theoretically for yet more cleaning, with the kind of yellow police tape that would normally surround a crime scene, which was exactly how it seemed. In fact, as I walked in, a young protestor was being arrested, evidently for the crime of lying down on a bench. (No sleeping, or even prospective sleeping, allowed -- except in jail!)

[Huey P. Long]

1. recommended

[RKP5637]

2. K&R !!!n/t

[movonne]

3. Where did all the protesters go???have they set up shop elsewhere???

[Juneboarder]

4. They're at Trinity Wall Street

http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/news/features/trinity-church-occupy-wall-street

[FarCenter]

5. Lots of people cut across it from Church and Liberty to Broadway and Cedar

Zuccotti is basically a shortcut between the World Trade Center transportation hub and the Wall Street Area.

Too bad it's closed.