Friday, December 9, 2011

31 Are Arrested at Occupy D.C. Building Site

By SAVAGE, C, CUSHMAN, J H, The New York Times, December 4, 2011.







Abstract : Describes precisely the arrest of 31 "occupy D.C." protesters in Washingtown on December the 4th evening. Recounts the points of view of both arrested and arrester.


"Extract" : "WASHINGTON — Police arrested 31 people on Sunday night and tore down a barnlike building Occupy D.C. protesters began to erect that morning in a park two blocks from the White House where they have been camping out. The episode, in which police officers plucked some protesters from the building’s rafters with a cherry picker or coaxed them to jump off it onto an inflated cushion, lasted into the evening."


Index terms : Occupy / Washington / arrest / police / 


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Url : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/us/occupy-dc-stopped-from-putting-up-a-building.html


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