www.democracynow.org - Nearly two months into Occupy Wall Street, New York City police have carried out a major crackdown on the protesters' Lower Manhattan encampment -- dismantling tents, confiscating belongings, and arresting more than 70 people. At around 1 am local time, police officers in riot gear circled Zuccotti Park — renamed Liberty Plaza by the protesters — ordering them to leave. Although most people complied, a group of around two to three hundred people refused, locking their arms together in the middle of the park. They were eventually detained after a tense standoff that saw police use pepper spray and hit protesters with batons. Police also dismantled the protesters' encampment, tearing down tents and tossing the sea of belongings, clothing, tarps and equipment into large dump trucks. During our live broadcast, a judge issued a restraining order prohibiting the city and police from evicting the protesters the Occupy Wall Street encampment. We get an update from longtime civil rights attorney, Danny Alterman, who helped file the injunction as part of the Liberty Park Plaza Legal Working Group. "We put together a set of papers on the fly, working nonstop throughout the night, and around 3 o'clock in the morning, contacted Judge Lucy Billings of the New York State Supreme Court who agreed to meet us between 5 and 6 am to review our request for a temporary restraining order, restraining the police from evicting the protesters at Liberty Park, exclusive of ...
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