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[Keith Millea]

NYPD breaks the law!!!!!.........Time to arrest them!!!!!.........

April 16, 2012, 11:14 am

Four Protesters Arrested in Sleep-Out Near Stock Exchange

By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Marcus Yam for The New York TimesTime to get up: A police captain ordered protesters off the sidewalk near the stock exchange early Monday morning.

Updated, 11:31 a.m. | The police arrested four people near the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning after telling Occupy Wall Street protesters, who have been gathering there for a week, that they were not permitted to sit or lie down on sidewalks.

The order came around 6 a.m., after about 100 people spent the night sleeping near the stock exchange, most of them on Nassau Street. "Sitting or lying down on the sidewalk is not permitted," a police captain announced. "Anyone who is sitting or lying down must now get up or be subject to arrest."

The captain continued: "Also, it is unlawful to leave moveable property on the sidewalk." Many of the protesters objected, saying that a federal court ruling allowed them to be there.
Over the next two hours, lines of officers moved protesters back and forth on Nassau Street as a man with a hose washed down the sidewalk on the west side of the street.

Marcus Yam for The New York TimesA maintenance worker hosed down the sidewalk on Nassau Street on Monday morning, displacing protesters who had spent the night.

The first arrest took place on the east side of the street, just before 8 a.m., when an officer grabbed a large piece of cardboard from a man.
"That's my cardboard," the man said, trying to grab it back.
"You're going to resist?" the officer said before arresting him. A few feet away, officers arrested a woman sitting on a curb.

Moments later, an officer placed a video camera close to the face of a man walking on Nassau Street. The man swung a bag toward the lens and the officer punched him in the face, then arrested him. A fourth arrest took place on Wall Street.

By 9 a.m., about 50 protesters had moved to the steps of Federal Hall, where they sang and held placards as commuters passed by. Across Wall Street, a contingent of officers watched them. At 10 a.m., an Occupy organizer, Jo Robin, said that a National Park Service officer had asked the protesters to fill out an application to hold a rally on the steps.

Norman Siegel, the civil rights lawyer, who has worked with the protesters, said the clearing of the sidewalks "raises serious and substantial constitutional and First Amendment issues."
The Wall Street sleep-outs began last Monday, several days after a similar protest near Union Square . Lawyers and Occupy organizers said the protests were protected by a 2000 ruling by a federal judge, Kimba M. Wood, who wrote that the First Amendment allows sleeping in public as a form of political expression.

Over the course of Sunday night, protesters gathered near the stock exchange, where they
held meetings and curled up in sleeping bags.

"This is significant because we're closer to Wall Street than we ever were before," Chris Andrews, 28, said, "and Wall Street is where everything happens."

Just after 10:30 a.m., officers arrested a man in a blue T-shirt and placed him in the back of a police truck parked on Wall Street. A moment later, the rear doors of the truck burst open and the man came hurtling out, still handcuffed. He ran about 60 feet before officers tackled him and returned him to the truck.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...p&tw_p=twt