What many expected to be a short-lived demonstration instead appeared to capture growing popular resentment against corporate bailouts and economic inequity. It soon grew into a movement that spread to other cities and led to raucous protests around the world. Police in other cities have used sometimes violent methods to disperse crowds. But the encampment in New York had remained largely peaceful.
After a few weeks, demonstrators were allowed to set up tents even though they violated the rules of the park. Over the past months, Mr. Bloomberg has appeared conflicted over how to deal with the entrenched crowd.
He has said he supports their right to free speech but didn't support their methods or message. The city was facing increasing pressure from neighbors, its own police department and others to shut down the encampment. An attempt by the city to remove protesters to clean the park last month was aborted under pressure from other elected officials.
This time around, the surprise raid left little time for politicians to dissent or protesters to prepare. By a. All Rights Reserved. Skip to Main Content Skip to Search. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. Dow Jones. Updated Nov. More photos and interactive graphics. Journal Community. Statements: Mayor Bloomberg Brookfield Properties.
Sponsored Offers. Most Popular News. Most Popular Opinion. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said protesters could use the park but must follow the rules — which do not allow for tents and sleeping bags, regulations that essentially make Zuccotti off limits for the prolonged encampment staged by the protesters.
Notices were handed out to protestors on behalf of Brookfield Office Properties , the owner of the park, and the City of New York, requiring them to immediately remove tents, sleeping bags and tarps.
The notice said the continued occupation of the park presented an increased health and fire safety risk to the protesters and the wider community. The mayor said the protesters now "will have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments. In an interview with CNBC, one angry protester said she was never given notice and that her personal belongings were taken away. The first protesters set up sleeping bags and blankets in Zuccotti Park on September 17, and their numbers rapidly swelled in the following weeks.
Tents appeared in the park and it was estimated that it sheltered around protesters. When asked what Tuesday's early-morning events meant for a rally planned for Thursday, one protester said, "It will only be that much stronger.
Police forcibly removed around demonstrators from the Melbourne camp on 21 October. The New York clearout comes after police arrested 33 people in Oakland, California as they closed the protest camp in Frank Ogawa Plaza early on Monday morning.
There was a fatal shooting near the camp last week and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she had to evict the demonstrators "before someone else got hurt". A number of other US cities have seen protests camps spring up in the past two months, and the Occupy movement has also spread to Europe, South America and Asia. How Zuccotti Park was cleared. Bloomberg: Camp 'intolerable'. In pictures: Police clear NYC camp. Occupy police 'used pepper spray'.
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New York mayor's office. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There were chaotic scenes as protesters resisted police. Legal challenge. Business pressure.
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