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Tue, Nov 15 2011 12:13:54

Josh Harkinson & Occupy Wall Street Eviction

When the police evicted the Occupy Wall Street protestors early in the morning of November 15, Mother Jones staff writer Josh Harkinson managed to duck the barricades and provide one of the only eyewitness accounts of the final moments of the NYPD's eviction. Here is his Twitter report, in order...

  1. Inside Police Lines at the Occupy Wall Street Eviction
    Tue Nov. 15, 2011 10:36 AM PST By about 4 a.m. today, New York City police had pushed the media out of Zuccotti Park and were preparing t...
    Motherjones
  2. I squirmed under a barricade and got this shot of the remains of Zuccotti. I'm at SE corner. twitpic.com/7eeut4
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
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    Mon, Nov 14 2011 23:54:40
  3. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Ok I'm goint to make a dash to get closer. Might get arrested.
    Mon, Nov 14 2011 23:56:45
  4. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    I got in. I'm right across street from zuccotti.
    Mon, Nov 14 2011 23:59:30
  5. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Cops inside leaving me alone so far
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:00:17
  6. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Tons of riot cops surrounding #OWS kitchen
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:00:00
  7. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    I think I am the only reporter in here. I'm by the food carts on Broadway
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:00:59
  8. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Which are weirdly still open for business. Cops now the only customers
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:01:38
  9. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Almost whole park is already clear except for food tent
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:02:15
  10. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Only #OWS supplies left are in a big heap by the red sculpture
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:02:57
  11. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    A slew of riot cops with batons heading down broadway
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:06:22
  12. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Cops have a giant orange bulldozer that they've used to scrape everything up
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:10:22
  13. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    I just made it all the way in. I am next to the food tent. It's a miracle.
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:12:41
  14. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    There are, very roughly, 25 ppl in the food tent resisting cops. So far police leaving them alone.
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:13:54
  15. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Kid wearing gas mask holding sign: "No law shall abridge the right of the people to peaceably assemble"
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:14:55
  16. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Another occupier is waving an American flag
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:15:17
  17. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    There are police big wigs in suits all around me
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:16:23
  18. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Sweaty guy in suit and neon vest ripping off signs: "I've been waiting a long time to do this."
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:17:28
  19. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Still big garbage piles around perimeter. Sani guys behin me sweeping and loading dump truck
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:18:32
  20. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Occupiers in food tent that I can see are not chained up. Cops just leaving them alone for now.
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:19:15
  21. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Cops with zip cuffs now massing by food tent
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:21:23
  22. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Arrests seem inevitable. I am afraid of walking around because I could get arrested too.
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:26:21
  23. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Cop on bullhorn now: "If you refuse to leave the park you are subject to arrest."
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:28:00
  24. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    I am very close to food tent. Have a good view of impending arrests
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:28:42
  25. JoshHarkinson
    Josh Harkinson@JoshHarkinson
    Riot cops now surrounding food tent.
    Tue, Nov 15 2011 00:29:15

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