(12-08) 00:59 PST San Francisco, CA (AP) --

Occupy San Francisco protesters are trying to regroup after police cleared their encampment and arrested at least 85 demonstrators.

About 100 to 150 protesters marched Wednesday evening along a section of Market St. to Justin Herman Plaza — the site of their former encampment _to hold a meeting and determine their next move.

Police spokesman Albie Esparza said approximately 85 people were cited and released after the raid early Wednesday morning.

About 15 people who were arrested on a variety of charges, ranging from resisting arrest to assault with a deadly weapon, were still in custody Wednesday afternoon, Esparza said.

Police did not return a call late Wednesday seeking more specific arrest numbers and information on any possible further arrests.

More than 100 officers carried out the raid, Esparza said. Afterward, officers blocked access to the former camp site as trash crews raked up paper and plastic bottles, removed chairs and other belongings that had accumulated there over the past two months, and pressure-washed the sidewalks.

A handful of protesters stood by, occasionally jeering at officers but otherwise heeding their instructions to stay back.

About 200 protesters gathered in front of the Federal Reserve Bank near the former Occupy site in the afternoon, blocking a busy thoroughfare ahead of a planned march.

The raid began around 1 a.m., when dozens of police cars, fire engines and ambulances surrounded the campsite at Justin Herman Plaza and blocked off the area. City officials previously declared the site a public health nuisance.

Police didn't immediately say how many people were in the plaza at the time, but campers put the estimate at 150.

"Most of the protesters went peacefully," but one officer received minor injuries when two people threw a chair that cracked his face shield, said Esparza.

Jack Martin of San Francisco said he was trying to leave the plaza when he was zip-tied, taken to a police station, cited and released. Officers trashed his tent and personal belongings, he said.

"Everything I owned is gone," said Martin, 51, as tears welled up in his eyes. "My medicine, my paper for my Social Security."

He yelled at a line of officers blocking the plaza, "I was trying to get out of your way!"

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