New York: Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on Monday as they gathered in the New York’s financial district, trying to surround the New York Stock Exchange and disrupt traffic on the first anniversary of the movement.
The New York Police Department said it has made “multiple arrests” by midmorning.
Police were also posted at major banks and government buildings, and guarded Wall Street’ landmark Charging Bull, a 7,100 pound bronze sculpture, Reuters reported.
Gideon Orion Oliver, a lawyer who represents a number of protesters and the president of the New York Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, tweeted that about 90 protesters had been arrested, including retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard, who also was arrested last December.
Occupy Wall Street protesters, who popularized the phrase “We are the 99 percent,” gathered early Monday near Zuccotti Park, where a spontaneous encampment became their unofficial headquarters last year, but were again barred access by police.
Occupy Wall Street briefly buoyed a spirit of US social activism, and drew attention to economic injustice.
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