Mass arrest happening at 13th near 5th ave now #occupywallstreet #ourwallstreet

updated!

new Videos:

"Mass arrests and media team under threat livestream Wall Street

http://ning.it/quWiGP

PEACEFUL FEMALE PROTESTORS PENNED IN THE STREET AND MACED!-

Arrested /Brutalized For Talking to a Cop

Police Abuse 09 24 11 Arrested /Brutalized

Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street )

#NYPD Live Scanner Audio Feed #occupywallst #ows http://ning.it/qKjKud

In Occupy Wall Street's eighth day, protestors claim on their Twitter account today that they have been targeted by tear gas, and at least 50 people have been arrested during their march through the city this afternoon headed toward the United Nations building.

Member of Occupy Wall Street's Public Relations Working Group Patrick Bruner said that he heard accounts of the tear gas from people who were monitoring the protest's livestream and from another person who was in contact with someone "on the ground."

"I'm working on confirming that," he said. "I'm pretty sure it's accurate."

Live now NYC protest Video Stream + IRC Chat

That said, he added that he hasn't been able to get a first-hand confirmation.

When we reached out to the NYPD's Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information we were told that the NYPD does not use tear gas and does not have it.

About 20 minutes after Occupy Wall Street tweeted about the tear gas, they added that more than 50 people have been arrested and five women were maced.

Bruner said that the arrests likely happened somewhere between 12th Street and Union Square. The report of five women being maced came to him from someone on the scene, he said, adding that that information has to be taken "with a grain of salt."

A representative from DCPI said he had not heard anything on arrests from the field yet.
We'll update as more information comes in.

Update: 3:46 p.m.

Occupy Wall Street's account just retweeted this photo of a woman, who is said to have been "pepper sprayed on 12th and university along with 5 other people."

via

Update: 4:03 p.m.
Bruner has just issued a retraction in regards to the tear gas tweet. He told us over the phone that it was a report perpetuated by people who saw steam coming out of vents on the livestream, which they mistook for tear gas.
Update: 4:16 p.m.
DCPI confirmed to us that there have been several arrests, but does not have specific numbers yet. Occupy Wall Street is saying that in total there have been at least 55 arrested, and at least five maced.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/occupy_wall_str_...

Union square park under control" says #NYPD

more updates below

Favorite

2 members favorited this

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by truth on September 24, 2011 at 3:54pm

Julie and @society_society both pepper sprayed in faces. #occupywallstreet #ourwallstreet

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by truth on September 24, 2011 at 3:58pm

live stream/ media teams target

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Meriem K. Peillet on September 24, 2011 at 3:59pm

In Europe we are following you...with interest even if the press is ignoring your protest...It will come we are working on it...by all means....

Thumb up...

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by truth on September 24, 2011 at 4:12pm

#OccupyWallst woman arrested and bloodied

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by truth on September 24, 2011 at 4:17pm

Please call the first precinct, central booking and the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information and urge them to release these peaceful protesters.

First precinct: +1 (212) 334-0611
Central booking: +1 (212) 374-3921
Deputy Commissioner of Public Information: +1 (646) 610-6700

UPDATE: At least another fifty arrested. Reports of police kettling protesters with big orange net, at least five maced, and using tasers.

RETRACTION: Reports earlier of tear gas was a mistake.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by 2p4plpyayj8y3 on September 24, 2011 at 4:30pm

Get ready people are getting extremely angry and I fear this is going to get very ugly all accross America. Gerald Celente

and Alex Jones have predicted this. This looks like the forerunner to whats coming. The question to ask are you ready for whats coming?

Paul

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by truth on September 24, 2011 at 9:21pm

NEW YORK — About 80 people have been arrested as demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange marched through lower Manhattan.
The "Occupy Wall Street" protest is entering its second week. Demonstrators said Saturday that they are protesting bank bailouts, the mortgage crisis and Georgia's execution of Troy Davis.
At Manhattan's Union Square, police tried to corral the demonstrators using orange plastic netting. Some of the arrests were filmed and activists posted the videos online. -AP-

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Steve Johnson on September 24, 2011 at 11:53pm

...... and so the humans battling for their earth back has begun in earnest.... Let us mark this day not in sombre recollection but with a passion and a fury at what exactly we are fighting for: OUR CHILDRENS' FUTURE FREEDOMS

Bless those whom see with eyes true...

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Steve Johnson on September 25, 2011 at 12:31am

I just hope citizens are taking officers names and numbers... Filthy beasts wont feel so tough when the people expose who these monkeymen are doing all the goon-work.

Remember what happened to Prince Johns men ?

Sad little uniformed monkeys will be the last to "get rewarded " when the NWO fully takes charge. I just wonder if they even realise what kinda "reward" is actually in store for them....