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Story with video link at OccupyWallSt.org
An officer from the Parks Department is trying to convince this small group to apply for a permit to occupy the steps.
Tense decisions being made by occupiers about standing their ground in the face of possible arrest. Please consider going to help, or watching/supporting on live video.
This morning the NYPD — including high ranking officials (white shirts) — surrounded and raided the intersection where Occupiers have been sleeping on Wall Street. This police action appears to be in direct defiance of the 2000 decision Metropolitan Council Inc. v. Safir, which held “public sleeping as a means of symbolic expression” to be constitutionally-protected speech. Occupiers read text from the case to police as they were being removed. Four people have now been arrested and Occupiers are currently taking refuge on the steps of the Federal Building. Watch on livestream above; follow @SleepOnWallSt.
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