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Judge Rules Against Zuccotti Park Protesters

Says Mayor Bloomberg had right to clear Occupy Wall Street protesters

By the Associated Press

Posted Nov 15, 2011 4:02 PM CST

(AP) – A New York judge has upheld the city's dismantling of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, saying that the protesters' First Amendment rights don't entitle them to camp out indefinitely in the plaza. Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman today denied a motion by the demonstrators seeking to be allowed back into the park with their tents and sleeping bags.

Police cleared out the protesters in a nighttime sweep. The judge upheld the city's eviction after an emergency appeal by the National Lawyers Guild. The protesters had been camped out in privately owned Zuccotti Park since mid-September. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he ordered the sweep because health and safety conditions had become "intolerable" in the crowded plaza.

Police make an arrest near Canal Street in New York City.
Police make an arrest near Canal Street in New York City.   (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Demonstrators face off with police in the streets of the financial district of Manhattan.
Demonstrators face off with police in the streets of the financial district of Manhattan.   (Getty Images)
Demonstrators face off with police in New York City.
Demonstrators face off with police in New York City.   (Getty Images)
A demonstrator is arrested outside Zuccotti Park.
A demonstrator is arrested outside Zuccotti Park.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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chezwhat
Nov 16, 2011 12:26 AM CST
It's time to educate the ultra rich and the simpleton righties who perform the rimjobs. Let it rip.
JimW
Nov 15, 2011 11:38 PM CST
Are any of you watching the news? This ( the evictions) is an 18 city plan ( straight from Oakland's Mayor) , and guided by whom? Homeland Security, who has now seen fit to close down the voice of the 99%. They have been practicing this shit for the last 10 years overseas, now it's our turn to feel it.  Like it ?   And where do you suppose that order came from? Possibly the little rat I used to support and idolize that is now conveniently in Australia? Not much liberal press there to press for answers, is there? Murdoch territory. At any rate, it has backfired, the movement is swelling even more, Bloomberg and others will be fried over it, and now the real fun begins ;-) Wish I was at Berkley tonite, it will be a great speech there. History repeats itself. 1964
ddhartma
Nov 15, 2011 6:18 PM CST
Did I not read correctly that this is a "privately" owned park? That being the case where do they have a "right" to take control over a privately owned property? Isn't this akin to anarchy, or are we on the verge of our own February 1917?

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