Police use bulldozers to break up Occupy Richmond

[rundevil]

Police use bulldozers to break up Occupy Richmond
By David Edwards
Monday, October 31, 2011

[release]Virginia State Police brought in bulldozers at about 1 a.m. Monday morning to clear out an encampment of Occupy Richmond protesters.

At least 15 protesters who choose not to leave Kanawha Plaza after a 45 minute warning were arrested, according to Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Demonstrators had been occupying the plaza since Oct. 15. Democratic Mayor Dwight C. Jones visited the site Thursday to warn protesters they were breaking a city ordinance that forbids camping on public property.

“We applied for permits from city council but, you know, they didn’t accept or decline us getting a permit,” one activist explained to WTVR. “At least them declining it would give us an idea what was to come, but we didn’t get anything. So we started occupying with high hopes and unfortunately this is what it came down to.”

Protesters have vowed to continue their occupation of Richmond even if they can’t do it at Kanawha Plaza.

Watch this video from WTVR, broadcast Oct. 31, 2011.[/release]

Source:
[url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/31/police-use-bulldozers-to-break-up-occupy-richmond/[/url]

[Angry Pineapple]

Hey that's like 20 minutes from me. Never really knew it was going on, I don't really venture into Richmond very often...
At least it didn't turn violent or anything.

[Kung Fu Jew]

[QUOTE=Angry Pineapple;33060634]Hey that's like 20 minutes from me. Never really knew it was going on, I don't really venture into Richmond very often...
At least it didn't turn violent or anything.[/QUOTE]an attack with bulldozers is nonviolent?

[Angry Pineapple]

[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;33060656]an attack with bulldozers is nonviolent?[/QUOTE]
It isn't like anyone was hurt, it sort of guided them out I guess. I'm talking like Occupy Oakland violent. (I think it was Oakland...)

[teslacoil]

How much longer until someone gets killed?

Seriously, let these people protest you dense fucks.

[DainBramageStud]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmIQX_ImgM[/media]

[Electrocuter]

[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;33060656]an attack with bulldozers is nonviolent?[/QUOTE]

What attack? They used the bulldozers to clean the park AFTER everyone left/was arrested.

[editline]31st October 2011[/editline]

Now that I think about it that's a pretty misleading title, the bulldozers were only used to clean the park.

[legolover122]

if people want to waste their time holding their signs freezing to death let them be. as long as they arent hurting anything.

[JETFIGHTER5]

This is my city. Amazing how much this movement has spread.