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Financial District Protests Continue as 7 More Are Arrested
By ROB HARRISSeven protesters were arrested on Tuesday downtown in Zuccotti Park in thecontinuing unrest in the financial district, the police said.
Those arrested included people accused of using a bullhorn without a permit, refusing police orders to disperse, trying to prevent officers from removing a tarp that had been put up in the park in violation of the sanitary code, and resisting arrest.
On Tuesday evening, the police said that 16 people had been arrested since the protests began on Saturday.
A video posted on YouTube shows a man in Zuccotti Park, at Broadway and Liberty Street, being held on the ground by two officers while he appears to be having an asthma attack. “I can’t breathe,” he tells the officers. “Get off of my lungs. You can cuff me. Let me breathe. I need my inhaler.”
The man who filmed the police action — who said he was an activist, Iraq war veteran and law student and insisted that his name not be used out of fear of retribution by the police — said that at around 9:30 a.m., a group of officers, led by an officer “with four stars on his collar” pulled out batons and moved in on the protesters who have occupied the park.
In the video, protesters encouraged those arrested to shout out their names so they could pass the names on to the National Lawyers Guild, which is providing legal assistance.
“Jason Ahmadi,” shouted one man as he was dragged by his feet to the curb and then cuffed with plastic handcuffs that he complained cut off circulation in his hands. He was then dragged to a police van.
The protester who complained that he couldn’t breathe was later lifted to his feet by officers and then walked to the police van under his own power.
In other protest news, six people were arrested near the United Nations on Tuesday, the police said, over entirely different circumstances — demonstrations against Palestine’s anticipated application to join the United Nations. The six protesters were issued disorderly conduct summonses charging them with blocking traffic and disregarding police instructions.
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