55 Occupy SF protesters arrested outside Federal Reservebruno718 wrote:the vast majority of them are full of shit. if they weren't they would be "occupying" the white house, congress, and the federal reserve. instead they block the main street of my home town and "protest" against the mall. it remains unclear what they want the mall to do.
12/11/11
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Police cleared out protestors from in front of the Federal Reserve building overnight, citing not The City’s controversial sit-lie ordinance that police Chief Greg Suhr had threatened to enforce to remove campers, but a state law on “illegal lodging.”
Illegal lodging is part of a California statute for misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Someone “who lodges in any building, structure, vehicle, or place, whether public or private, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession or in control of it” can be arrested.
Phillips said there had been no tents or structures overnight, and that campers were rustled from their sleeping bags, with cops outnumbering demonstrators by about two to one.
“It doesn’t get much more peacefully assembled than a bunch of people cuddled up on the sidewalk,” said Phillips.
During Sunday’s arrests, some police officers were spit on and one officer was pushed by demonstrators, but no one – demonstrators or police – was injured, according to Esparza.
