David Goldman
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AP
An anti-Wall Street protestor in Atlanta is arrested early Wednesday after refusing to leave a city park.
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated
10/26/2011 9:26:19 PM ET
2011-10-27T01:26:19
Police moved into a downtown Atlanta park and arrested around 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters who had been encamped there for about two weeks Wednesday, while across the country in Oakland, Calif., officers in riot gear stood watch after clashes there with demonstrators overnight.
Oakland demonstrators vowed on Wednesday to return to their protest site just hours after police cleared hundreds of people from the streets with tear gas and bean bag rounds. The city had erected a chain-link fence around the plaza in the morning, and workers were mowing the grass and sweeping up remnants of the encampment that was dismantled the day before. After the encampment was cleared Tuesday, protesters began marching toward City Hall in an attempt to re-establish a presence in the area of the disbanded camp.
Officers also fired beanbag rounds, clearing out the encampment of protesters in less https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC809d2CE2c_GO-ePkXRizbA since last week as officials complained about what they described as deteriorating safety, sanitation and health issues at the site of the dismantled camp.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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