Police break up Occupy Wall St. camp in Richmond

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Police in Richmond, Va., have broken up an Occupy Wall Street camp where protesters had set up a tent city, complete with a makeshift library, kitchen and portable toilets.

Police spokesman Gene Lepley says officers began clearing the park early Monday around 1 a.m. He says most of the dozens of protesters there left when told to and around a dozen who stayed were arrested for trespassing.

The "Occupy" movement, which began six weeks ago in lower Manhattan to decry corporate influence in government and wealth inequality, has spread to cities across the country and around the world. Demonstrators have spent weeks camped out in parks, wearing at the patience of city officials.




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Police in Richmond broke up an Occupy Wall Street camp in Virginia's capital on Monday. The encampment in the city's Kanawha Plaza had become a tent city, complete with a makeshift library, kitchen and portable toilets.

Police spokesman Gene Lepley says officers began clearing the park early this morning. He says most of the dozens of protesters there left when told to and around a dozen who stayed were arrested for trespassing.

[piratefish08]

1. "wearing at the patience of city officials" - because the 1st Amendment only applies until you wear

on someone's patience..............

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2. yep, sad but true.

:argh:

This type of unconstitutional behavior, ironically, is what OWS is about.

[underpants]

3. Did they really need bulldozers?

I saw this just now. Damn I was going to go down and see them (give them cash) yesterday.

[2pooped2pop]

4. they actually took stuff from the homeless camped under

a nearby bridge. These homeless have no other place to be and it was just cruel. New supplies are needed. They will break our camps but not our determination.