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| Subject: Occupy raid has many arrests, few complaints Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:53 am | |
| Hours after a large-scale police raid on Dewey Square razed the Occupy Boston camp, city leaders praised police for executing the peaceful arrests of 46 protesters. Meanwhile protesters gathered throughout the day to celebrate those who insisted on taking a stand against eviction.
Protestors gathered around 6 p.m. for an interfaith prayer service on Boston Common, followed by a general assembly meeting that was intended to decide the movement’s next steps.
With a crowd fluctuating between 50 and 300, members floated such ideas as setting up general assemblies around the city or occupying closed schools and foreclosed homes. But little was decided except agreeing to continue meeting, and the crowd dispersed by 10:45.
Boston, MA 121011 Boston Police Department officers removed Occupy Boston protesters rom Dewey Square in Boston on December 10, 2011. The City of Boston won a legal battle against Occupy which allowed them to remove the protesters after a December 8, 2011 midnight deadline. The end of the day was in keeping with the relatively calm dismantling of the Occupy Boston camp in the early morning hours. According to city leaders, the orderly end of the Boston protest - in contrast to confrontations in other cities - lay in seeds sown in the encampment’s beginning.
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/12/10/occupy-raid-has-many-arrests-few-complaints/85tya8fGbxLlpJ7LZWEN2L/story.html |
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