Around 2 a.m. this morning the NYPD began clearing the Occupy Wall Street Ziccotti Park site. Although some film coverage exists, it is scanty. News media was blocked access to the site as were protesters attempting to enter the area. Below are three links I was able to find.
ABC news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_osX6JWdvU
Russia Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpq-moDIkl8
AlJazeeraEnglish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2pVafxS8ZU
Protesters were informed they could return after the site had been cleaned. The tents and equipment were loaded onto trucks and removed.
At roughly the same time an Occupy Albany site was cleared in the state capital. Over the past week or so, encampments throughout the country have been cleared in roughly the same manner. The procedure of initiating the evictions during the small hours of the night appears to work well from the police standpoint.
I guess this ends Occupy Wall Street. With winter coming on and officialdom cracking down, surely now the protesters will give up and go home and everything will return to "normal."
Or not.
Here's what I think...
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I am of mixed feelings about the Occupy movement right now. On one hand, it is both encouraging and heartening to see people of all different ages, races, political affiliations, etc. exercise their constitutional right to protest. The fact that there has been so much violence and unrest at the Oakland Occupied location (more than any other), has unfortunately played right into Republican hands; now the movement can be painted into a corner full of malcontents, crackpots and (my favorite) lazy students who can't be bothered studying or looking for work. I think the movement accomplished one basic mission: that people tired of the status quo and seeking change would not be silenced and were willing and able to stand up and be counted.
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