Police arrest protestors in Washington

A number of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested by the police in Washington DC on Saturday. Police in the US capital city of Washington arrested at least eight protesters from the 'Occupy DC' movement after raiding the demonstrators' campsite. The police forces, who were in riot gear and were riding horses, entered the Occupy DC camp in the McPherson Square in downtown Washington early Saturday to enforce a camping ban. An officer told the protesters that the police were not there to evict them but to check for compliance with the "no camping" laws. However, officers then began removing the tents that had camping gear inside. Despite the efforts of the 1%, the anti-capitalism Occupy Wall Street Movement is far from dead, thanks to the creative and various tactics exercised by the American protesters. On September 17, 2011, a group of protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York City. Their intention: to expose Wall Street greed and corporate domination over the lives of working and middle class people, the 99%. Almost immediately, police responded to the protesters with repression and pepper spray. This caused thousands of New Yorkers to flood to Zuccotti Park. Occupy Wall Street was on. Protesters camped in the park and did not leave for 59 days. Support for the protest built quickly and spread across the country and around the world. Within weeks, almost a thousand cities had Occupy protests. US cities big and small had Occupations, including Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Oakland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Tampa and Winston-Salem.