Thursday, October 13, 2011

Occupy Boston Arrests










I've been spending a lot of time covering the Occupy Boston movement since it began nearly three weeks ago. This past week the movement came to its climax when word spread that Boston Police were going to "move" protesters who set up camp on an unauthorized part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. There was no word on what time this was going to happen but everyone knew it would eventually, so all I could do was wait. I remained on scene with the protesters from 1:30 pm throughout the day and into the night. As night passed and word that Police were gearing up on surrounding streets we knew they would be making there move soon. At 1:30 AM police marched into the camp demanding the protesters vacate the property and if they didn't they would be arrested. The arrests lasted for quite some time and I had to be cautious not to be mistaken for a protester as it seemed the police were grabbing everyone and anyone there. I made it out with some images of the night's more than 150 arrests.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Daina said...

Wow, sounds massively boring! Thanks for waiting it out so we can enjoy these images from our warm, comfy computers!

October 18, 2011 at 9:43 AM  

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