Detroit police arrest protesters at library sit-in.

[RandySF]

Police led at least two protestors away in handcuffs Thursday night from a sit-in protest designed to stop four branch closures of the Detroit Public Library.

Protestors began gathering outside the Lincoln branch on East Seven Milejust after 4:30 p.m. The branch, along with Mark Twain, Monteith and Richard, is set to permanently close Thursday because of budget cuts.

By nearly 6 p.m., about 30 people were outside Lincoln chanting, while another 11 were inside. Five squad cars stood guard nearby the protest organized by the group By Any Means Necessary.

Occupy Detroit organizers also posted to their website asking members to gather outside Lincoln before 5:30 p.m. Another protest is planned outside Monteith on Kercheval at 5 p.m.

Donna Stern, an organizer for the group By Any Means Necessary, said the closures would "further erode the neighborhoods."

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20111222/METRO/112220477/1409/metro/Police-arrest-protesters-sit-Detroit-library-branch

[StarsInHerHair]

1. were any Librarians arrested with them? I know they hated the "letters of spying" & were gagged

by Ws regime

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. more and more of this shit will only lead to more and more

people getting radicalized.

[RandySF]

3. this is what I meant..

when I said it was time to fold the tents. I would rather get arrested for trying to keep a library open than than fighting over whether I can stay in a park.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Well while you will have some physical occupations

my county is a perfect example. We have ONE physical with die hards that will keep that going till the cows come home, and last count, another eleven that were all but tents. Heck a couple are purely occupy facebook affairs.

[T S Justly]

5. K&R (nt)