Occupy Wall Street : échauffourées à New York – 15 octobre 2011

Anti-capitalist protests rage on; 200 arrested

dailytimes.com.pk

16 10 2011

Thousands of protesters fill NYC’s Times Square, clash with police

NEW YORK/LONDON: Around 200 people were arrested in the United States on Saturday as anti-capitalism protests continued to rage in various parts of the US, Canada, Europe and other parts of the world.

At least 88 people were arrested in New York after police on horseback clashed with thousands of protesters in Times Square during a global day of demonstrations against corporate greed.

Police loaded at least 45 “Occupy Wall Street” protesters detained at the square onto waiting vans.

The clashes took place at the corner of 46th Street and Seventh Avenue after a day of marches that began in the city’s financial district – the nerve center of New York’s protest movement.

Mounted police pushed back protesters who were trying to enter Times Square. Dozens of panicked people then began to run and a woman fell down. She suffered a head injury and was swiftly carried away on a stretcher.

“All day, all week, occupy Wall Street!” demonstrators shouted.

Police arrested 24 other protesters earlier for trespassing at a Citibank branch, a New York Police Department spokesman said. Read more…