Last night, capping off a long day of protests around Manhattan and the world, Occupy Wall Street held a meeting in Washington Square Park to discuss whether to set up a permanent occupation there. Unlike the park that houses the original OWS occupation near Wall Street, Washington Square is a publicly-owned space that’s subject to a 12 a.m. closing time imposed by New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation. As midnight approached, the New York City Police Department dispatched more than 100 police officers in riot gear to push out the occupiers. Some of them chose to resist, and I was there inside the police cordon to capture this exclusive video (the confrontation with police happens near the end):
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