About 500 protesters accumulated in the area Saturday evening, where these people rang from the new year with sounds along with their now-familiar chant of "We would be the 99 percent."
About 11 p.m., right after a comparatively silent evening, quite a few protesters initiated for you to dissect down that barricades that contain surrounded the particular recreation area because New York police evicted Occupy Wall Street users upon Nov. 15, protesters reported Sunday. Police then shifted in.
"They (police) acquired very ambitious in addition to started off pushing people in addition to pepper-spraying people," protester Jason Amadi, 27, involving San Jose , California, reported Sunday. "I got pepper-sprayed in the face."
The protesters said they proved helpful at divisions of the area around groups associated with twos along with threes, retreating simply as soon as law enforcement converged plus drawn the barricades back.
"People ended up getting involved in collecting every one of the barricades along with producing type of a major heap involving these in the centre of this park," explained protester Melanie Butler, 30, of Brooklyn. "And we were standing on it together with your Occupy Wall Street banner."
The New York Police Department explained 68 people were arrested, and with minimum one man or women was arrested involving assaulting a police officer, that endured reduces on one particular hand. Other expenses listed trespassing, disorderly carry out and also reckless endangerment.
Police were continue to refinement the arrests Sunday morning, but many protesters possessed been released. Police supplied no additional exactly this confrontation.
After the arrests, the actual guests initiated to be able to thin out. A more compact party of related to 100 persons marched inside a group of friends near the park then most of them left, Amadi said.
"Many individuals presently there experienced who's had been emblematic of the modern year, regarding just what exactly seemed to be to come," they said. "People protesting peacefully, but devoid of fear."
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