Stephen Nessen, Reporter, WNYC News
Stephen Nessen reports for the WNYC Newsroom and can often be heard live on Morning Edition.
Look | Protesters March to Police Plaza
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 08:03 PM
Protesters marching to One Police Plaza.
(Stephen Nessen/WNYC)
Over a thousand protesters marched from Wall Street to NYPD headquarters early Friday evening.
In its second week, the Occupy Wall Street protesters, some of whom have been camping out in Lower Manhattan, were joined by others marched to One Police Plaza and stayed there for a couple of hours chanting "We are the 99 percent" or "Ray Kelly has to go."
The signs showed the diversity of the crowd and the issues that led people to march, including concerns about police behavior against the protesters like the use of pepper-spray at a march to Union Square last weekend.
Manhattan Housing Attorney Sam Himmelstein said “I think the message that this is sending that it’s not okay to spray people indiscriminately but I think the focus should really remain Wall Street and the disparity of wealth in our country.”
About 50 members of the Transport Workers Unions also joined marchers.
Friday's march was peaceful; officers appeared to keep their distance while attempting to keep the protesters on the same route along Broadway.
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Kathleen Horan, Reporter, WNYC News
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Comments [4]
I want to suggest an idea to NYPD: articulate a support fund from Big Banks called "Wall Street for NYPD". The ice was broken by Chase Bank donation of $4.6 million.
The donation, biggest ever for NYPD, seems a coincidence, don’t you? See more http://www.emoneydaily.com/j-p-morgan-chase-co-nysejpm-makes-4-6m-donation-to-nypd/69818864/
This Wed. at 4:30, unions and community groups are "marching on Wall St." at City Hall.
Union workers and community members impacted by the economic crisis have been demanding that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorker's pay their fair share of taxes.
Let's march down to Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the faces of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed.
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Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)
TWU Local 100
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NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
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The New Deal for New York Campaign
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CWA 1109
RWDSU
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I'm proud to be New Yorker when I see their citizens fighting for the right cause. Finally!
I'm out of the city working but I so want to be there !
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