450 people are trapped on bridge, 75 arrested, city sending buses
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Dozens arrested at Occupy Wall Street protest; Brooklyn Bridge shut down
Originally Published:Saturday, October 1st 2011, 5:26 PM
Updated: Saturday, October 1st 2011, 6:15 PM
Updated: Saturday, October 1st 2011, 6:15 PM
Mario Tama/Getty
Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement after they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. Dozens of people were arrested after standing in the roadway, blocking the Brooklyn-bound lanes. Traffic in the opposite direction was slowed -- but still running after the 4 p.m. standoff.
Police called in city buses to haul away some of the handcuffed demonstrators.
"People were trying to climb off [the roadway to the pedestrian] walkway, but they were freaking out," Mariana Flor, 23, said of the police.Flor said cops warned protesters that if they didn't move, they'd be arrested.
Some of the demonstrators estimated more than 100 people were arrested. The NYPD couldn't immediately confirm the number of people in custody.
A sea of cops set up orange nets penning in the protesters, prompting some to chant, "Shame! Shame!"
(Anjali Mullany/News)
Before cops arrived, hundreds of protestors took to the bridge on the pedestrian walkway and the roadway chanting, "Take the bridge!" witnesses said.
By 5 p.m., protesters, who marched to the bridge from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, clogged both the walkway and Brooklyn-bound car lanes. Just after 6 p.m., some of the protesters moved to the Manhattan Bridge.
The arrests marked the second Saturday in a row protesters landed in cuffs.
(Police prepare to arrest protesters/Mario Tama/Getty)
Last week, cops arrested more than 80 people near Union Square. During that roundup, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna doused a handful of women with pepper spray - spawning a video clip that helped embolden the movement.
NYPD Internal Affairs and the Civilian Complaint Review Board are probing the pepper-spray incident, which gave the protests - now more than two weeks old - added verve.
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