Occupy Wall Street continues to expand rapidly, with no end to its growth in sight.
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- Video of protesters, journalists being maced, hit with batons: The Fox News affiliate in New York City has some remarkable video of police hitting protesters in yesterday's march with pepper spray and nightsticks. The reporter and his cameraman were also hit:
- Police confiscate possessions of occupiers in San Francisco: Police cleaned out much of the infrastructure of Occupy San Francisco last night. From an Occupy SF release:
Last night the SFPD issued us an unsigned, undated notice that declared we had to pack up our tents without giving us a timeline or else we would risk arrest.
They said that we could remain occupying if we pulled down our tents and complied with their other demands.
We complied with their demands by taking down our tents and beginning to clear-out the rest of our infrastructure that was in violation of City and/or State laws.
We made a call to action. Our numbers doubled.
Occupy Oakland, along with many others, immediately responded when we announced that the cops were here to take us down. Thank you Occupy Oakland and all others!
Yet still, the police, wearing helmets and carrying batons, formed a perimeter around our goods and prevented us from saving anything while they supervised Public Works employees as they stole everything.
War on Error has more information on what happened, along with some great pictures.
- Several large, new protests today: Here are some pictures from protests that began today in cities outside New York:
Occupy Portland launched today, with a big crowd of over 3,000:
Occupy Philly started off with about 1,000 people
Also, check out this amazing picture of the Philadelphia General assembly back on Tuesday.
Further, check out rickrocket's diary for some great pics of the first day of Occupy Houston.
- Rapid online growth continues: There are now over 689,000 "likes" for Occupy Wall Street groups on Facebook, a growth of well over 100,000 since yesterday.
- President Obama says Occupy Wall Street "expresses the frustrations that the American people feel":
The president, speaking at a press conference, said he had heard about and seen television reports on the recent protests on Wall Street, and noted that "I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel."
"We had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression - huge collateral damage throughout the country, all across main street. And yet, you are still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to crack down on abusive practices that got us in the situation in the first place," Mr. Obama told reporters. "I think people are frustrated."
CBS News has the video:
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