Hundreds march on New York police HQ
- 13 years ago
Hundreds of protesters march through the America's financial nerve centre: Wall Street.
Many have been camped here for weeks, protesting home foreclosures, the 2008 bank bailouts and high unemployment.
On Saturday, they made their way to the headquarters of the New York City Police Department.
They railed against what they said was the use of excessive force by officers, who were caught on camera using pepper spray against demonstrators last week.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) JAMIE WARREN, PROTESTER, SAYING:
"I'm a historian and so what's always been heartbreaking to me is when you see movements for social justice, particularly among the working class are the ways in which the police are often forced by the hand of the state to turn against other working class people."
Many in the so-called Occupy Wall Street movement said the treatment has galvanized their resolve to continue picketing.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) JASON, PROTESTER, SAYING:
"People are realizing that we are all one and that is our governments that work against us to keep everyone down. That's how the one percent gets away with it, is by dividing us up and people not realizing that we are all one and that's what this movement is about all over the world."
Similar protests have broken out across the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Organizers here have vowed to stay until winter.
Andrew Raven, Reuters
Many have been camped here for weeks, protesting home foreclosures, the 2008 bank bailouts and high unemployment.
On Saturday, they made their way to the headquarters of the New York City Police Department.
They railed against what they said was the use of excessive force by officers, who were caught on camera using pepper spray against demonstrators last week.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) JAMIE WARREN, PROTESTER, SAYING:
"I'm a historian and so what's always been heartbreaking to me is when you see movements for social justice, particularly among the working class are the ways in which the police are often forced by the hand of the state to turn against other working class people."
Many in the so-called Occupy Wall Street movement said the treatment has galvanized their resolve to continue picketing.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) JASON, PROTESTER, SAYING:
"People are realizing that we are all one and that is our governments that work against us to keep everyone down. That's how the one percent gets away with it, is by dividing us up and people not realizing that we are all one and that's what this movement is about all over the world."
Similar protests have broken out across the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Organizers here have vowed to stay until winter.
Andrew Raven, Reuters