BREAKING: Arresting Everyone at Brooklyn Bridge-"They've Turned The Brooklyn Bridge Into A Jail"

[kpete]

Devereaux just added, "One woman just said, "they've turned the BK bridge into a jail"' and also tweeted, "Source on bridge says, "a couple hundred," still waiting to be loaded into NYPD vans."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDaGm3hpqU&feature=player_embedded

About 10 minutes ago the Livefeed recorded the march - extremely large attendance - being

stopped at Brooklyn Bridge, a wall of high ranking police, and a number of Paddy Wagons arriving.

A few minutes later - mass arrests began. Ongoing now.

That's it - please post info if you have it. This is ongoing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021920/-BREAKING:-Arresting-Everyone-at-Brooklyn-Bridge?via=siderec


Update 4:40 p.m.: Protesters are chanting "Let us go" as police seem to be going around arresting people at random. Police could be seen arresting a very young looking girl (15-17 from what we can tell), and people are screaming that they are arresting a "little girl" for no reason (at least one person identified her as 13, but we can't confirm if that's true). You can see a screen shot of her below.

http://gothamist.com/2011/10/01/breaking_occupy_wall_street_protest.php



UPDATE:

According to eyewitnesses, the NYPD closed the bridge to traffic as the surge of protesters arrived, but then used the crowd's presence on the roadway to corral them in on both sides, so that no exit is possible.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/674824/nypd_mass_arrests_of_occupy_wall_street_protesters:_firsthand_account_from_alternet_staffer_trapped_on_bridge/

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Police arresting a reportedly 13 year-old girl:

[cwydro]

14. If she is 13...

where are her parents?

[CTyankee]

17. how do you know they aren't in the crowd too?

[bahrbearian]

30. Yes where are they? All young women should be escorted by an Adult Male relative.

They should also wear veils or better yet Burkas

[Lorien]

32. Geez man, what Country did you grow up in?

When I was 13 I took the bus everywhere alone. She's a teenager!

[pipi_k]

29. Appearances are deceiving....

The year...about 1983

I was in a store with my daughter, who was 11 at the time.

One of the clerks thought we were sisters...that, instead of being 31, I was only 15.

And that was face-to-face.

[provis99]

2. and using Nazi kesselschlacht tactics, I see.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Is that really where that's from? Edit: Found a link, thanks!

[provis99]

11. the linked article and comment explain it:

http://trustyservant.com/archives/983

Kesselschlacht, translated literally from the German, means "kettle slaughter".

An appropriate name for this sort of police tactic.

[CoffeeCat]

34. The police led them to the Brookly Bridge...

...and it's obvious now that this was the plan all along. Get the protesters
on the bridge, trap them, then claim that they were blocking traffic.

The protesters were LED onto the bridge.

I guess this means that you don't allow the police to lead you anywhere!

[StarsInHerHair]

22. I found a quick def here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare

[Honeycombe8]

3. If they're breaking the law, they should be arrested. Protests are legal...

its exercising a person's free speech rights. Interfering with OTHER citizens rights....that's against the law.

[Abin Sur]

5. Completely agree. n/t

[malaise]

9. What if they were corralled unto the bridge deliberately and

trapped.

Read the reports.

[Abin Sur]

36. From what I've seen

that's not the case.

[provis99]

6. the cops FORCED them onto the bridge.

[Honeycombe8]

15. I'm sure those photos are posted somewhere, since there were hundreds of cameras there.

Got a link to those photos?

[Doremus]

18. Uh, there were police waiting on both sides of the bridge

Slightest suggestion of pre-planning on their part or a sublime coincidence?

I know which I believe, you?

[uppityperson]

28. Here's a link to NYTimes

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/?hp

In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 400 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.

The police did not immediately release precise arrest figures, but said it was the choice of those marchers that led to the swift enforcement. “Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” said the head police spokesman, Paul J. Browne. “Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested.”

But many protesters said that they thought the police had tricked and trapped them, allowing them onto the bridge and even escorting them across, only to surround them in orange netting after hundreds of them had entered.

“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us on to the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who was in the march but was not arrested.

(clip)
“We thought they were escorting us because they wanted us to be safe.”

[CoffeeCat]

35. The police know that all of us have cameras...

Their first approach was police brutality. They were attempting to scaring everyone
into going home.

Now that everyone has cell phones, police brutality will get you on Youtube and creates
public sympathy for the protesters.

So the police are being manipulative and they are attempting to position the protesters
as the evil people in this scenario. Notice how most of the articles stress that these
protesters were "ticketed" not arrested. Oh how nice...look how NICE the police are
being to those horrible, rebel protesters who are blocking traffic and refusing to obey
police orders.

Look for more of this garbage. The protesters really need to be aware of these tactics,
because they will be used again.

Don't follow the police anywhere! The police are not your friend. The NY City police
are being used as a device to stop these protests--and they will continue implementing
dirty tactics!

I think it's hilarious that cell phones make police brutality quite difficult. Maybe
the cops will tire of being used by these corporations and billionaires--and will protest
with "We The People".

[Fool Count]

7. Yeah, that's what Qaddafi's problem was - not having enough police

to arrest all the protesters for "interfering with other citizens rights".

[StarsInHerHair]

23. good 1

[emilyg]

12. Right.

[devilgrrl]

20. ....

[jwirr]

21. Agreed but if they were directed to the roadway by the police and

then kettled they are not doing anything illegal. The police are the ones who closed off the bridge.

[backscatter712]

24. Except what happened was the NYPD led the protesters to the bridge, then blocked them in.

That's entrapment.

[uppityperson]

26. So, police corralling them on a bridge, not letting them get off, is this legal?

Should those police be arrested for false imprisonment? Or perhaps kidnapping?

[backscatter712]

27. The pigs don't give a fuck.

They know that what's going to happen is that the protestors will lawyer up, and either the charges will be dropped, or they'll pay a $100 fine for disorderly conduct - little more than a speeding ticket.

All they wanted to do was force them into the bowels of New York's correctional system, and shit them out the other end, just to scare the hell out of them and disappear them for a day. The police in that city are authoritarian trash, who are extrajudically punishing protestors for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Did I forget to mention that New York's police, at least the ones on the bridge, are a bunch of subhuman un-American trash?

[Zorra]

31. lions and tigers and bears, oh my! nt

[Lorien]

33. My my, I guess we know what side you are on now

authoritarians always march in lockstep with the rulers, regardless of how badly the rulers misbehave.

[malaise]

4. You can cut and paste the chat - it's moving too fast to read

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2037535

[eleny]

10. thx!

[rocktivity]

13. "Saturday NIght Fever: The Next Generation."

:wow:
rocktivity

[Kurovski]

16. K&R. (nt)

[PETRUS]

19. K&R

Let's get at least two more people on the street for every one they haul off.

STAY STRONG.

[Tejas]

25. Bloomberg arresting his voting base.

Brilliant, your highness, absolutely brilliant. :sarcasm: