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Lawyers: Court order will allow Occupy Wall Street protesters to return after police sweep
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Hundreds of police officers in riot gear before dawn Tuesday raided the New York City park where the Occupy Wall Street protests began, evicting and arresting hundreds of protesters from what has become the epicenter of the worldwide movement protesting corporate greed and economic inequality.
Hours later, the status of the now-empty park remained in limbo as National Lawyers Guild obtained a court order allowing the protesters to return with their tents. The guild said the injunction prevents the city from enforcing park rules on the protesters.
At a morning news conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the evacuation of the two-month-old encampment was conducted in the middle of the night "to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park, and to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighbourhood."
Hundreds of police officers surrounded the park overnight in riot gear, holding plastic shields and batons which in some cases were used on protesters. Police flooded the park with klieg lights and used bull horns to announce that everyone had to leave.
Police "had their pepper spray out and were ready to use it," protester Jake Rozak.
About 200 people were arrested, including some who chained themselves together. Others chanted or shouted angrily at police and vowed to march in protest later Tuesday.
Protesters in New York fought back the threat of a similiar sweep weeks ago, but momentum against the camps appears to be growing as authorities across the U.S. grow impatient with the self-proclaimed leaderless movement and its lack of a focused demand.
Bloomberg said the city knew about the court order Tuesday but had not seen it and would go to court to fight it.
"From the beginning, I have said that the City had two principal goals: guaranteeing public health and safety, and guaranteeing the protestors' First Amendment rights" to free speech, he said in a statement. "But when those two goals clash, the health and safety of the public and our first responders must be the priority."
By 9 a.m., the park was power-washed clean by sanitation workers. Police in riot gear ringed the public space, waiting for orders to reopen it.
The city told protesters they could come back after the cleaning, but under new tougher rules, including no tents, sleeping bags or tarps, which would effectively put an end to the encampment if enforced.
Concerns about health and safety issues at Occupy Wall Street camps around the U.S. have intensified, and protesters have been ordered to take down their shelters, adhere to curfews and relocate so that parks can be cleaned.
Police have made similiar sweeps and arrests in recent days in Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. Two camps had fatal shootings last week, including a suicide, and bodies were found at two other camps.
Hundreds of former Zuccotti Park residents and their supporters marched through Lower Manhattan on Tuesday morning. Some paused and locked arms outside the gates of City Hall but left peacefully when police in riot gear appeared. About 300 to 400 kept moving along the sidewalks.
Some chanted, "This is what democracy looks like."
Others chanted: "Hey, hey, ho, ho, our billionaire mayor has got to go."
At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, New York City police handed out notices from Brookfield Office Properties, owner of Zuccotti Park, and the city saying that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous.
Paul Browne, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, said the park had been cleared by 4:30 a.m. One person was taken to a hospital for evaluation because of breathing problems.
Police in riot gear filled the streets, car lights flashing and sirens blaring.
"The police are forming a human shield, and are pushing everyone away," said another protester, Rabbi Chaim Gruber.
Notices given to the protesters said tents, sleeping bags and other items had to be removed because "the storage of these materials at this location is not allowed."
Alex Hall, 21, said police walked into the park "stepping on tents and ripping them out."
Elsewhere in the U.S., anti-Wall Street activists planned to converge at the University of California, Berkeley on Tuesday for another attempt to set up an Occupy camp, less than a week after police arrested dozens of protesters who tried to pitch tents on campus. They will be joined by Occupy Oakland activists who were cleared by police from a tent city before dawn Monday.
In London, authorities said they were resuming legal action to evict a protest camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral after talks with the demonstrators stalled.
More than 200 tents have been pitched outside the iconic church for a month in a protest inspired by the New York demonstration.
In Toronto, eviction notices were delivered Tuesday to Occupy protesters who have been camped in a downtown park since mid-October.
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