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Comment by Vivian on September 21, 2011 at 10:35am

Vincent, I'm in the metropolitan area and you're right that they're hardly talking about this on the news.

Comment by Occupy Fullerton on September 21, 2011 at 9:56am

They want to discourage us, divide us, they want to keep us from uniting!! They know that WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK! Now this is a battle worth fighting!

Comment by Curtis on September 20, 2011 at 5:28pm

what about a mass self arrest .. 1 million man turn your self in at the stations. flood the police stations. why let them pick and chose

Comment by truth on September 20, 2011 at 1:13pm

Day 4: At least five arrested, one may be in critical condition

Posted 2011-09-20 05:01:04 UTC by OccupyWallSt

Early this morning at least five protesters were arrested by NYPD.

The first arrest was a protester who objected to the police removing a tarp that was protecting our media equipment from the rain. The police said that the tarp constituted a tent, in spite of it not being a habitat in any way. Police continued pressuring protesters with extralegal tactics, saying that a protester on a bullhorn was breaking a law. The protester refused to cease exercising his first amendment rights and was also arrested. Then the police began to indiscriminately attempt to arrest protesters, many of them unsheathed their batons, in spite of the fact that the protest remained peaceful. One of the protesters received a large gash on their leg, another lost a tooth. Multiple police tackled a protester and sat on him as he continually warned them that he was experiencing an asthma attack. One of the medics on site informed the police that they needed to call an ambulance because this was a potentially fatal circumstance. They ignored him. We have no current information on this protester, but we hope that he hasn't been murdered by the police.