NYPD arrests 14 OWS protesters

25 Mar, 2012 06:05 / Updated 13 years ago

New York police have arrested 14 protesters at two separate Occupy Wall Street rallies on Saturday.

Hundreds marched, carrying banners against police brutality,in a demonstration from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the place where OWS was born, to Union Square Park. This demonstration lost 10 participants, arrested by police mostly for disorderly conduct.Another protest was held outside the UN headquarters, declared a “disrupt corporate polluters” campaign. At this event NYPD arrested four demonstrators This Saturday became the second in a row marked with OWS activists’ arrests. Last Saturday NYPD apprehended over 70 activists during a violent raid at Zuccotti Park.