Post by unlawflcombatnt on Oct 24, 2011 17:21:47 GMT -6
Occupy Dallas occupied the Dallas branch of Chase Bank and the Chase tower today. Nearly 2 dozen arrests were made.
from NBC-Dallas Fort Worth:
23 Arrested after Occupy Dallas Protest at Chase Bank
Mon Oct 24, 2011
by Frank Heinz
"Nearly 2 dozen Occupy Dallas protestors were arrested after a demonstration outside of Chase Tower and a Chase Bank branch in downtown Dallas Monday afternoon.
At about 2:15 p.m., NBC 5 got word that protestors were said to be blocking customers from entering the Chase bank at Main and Akard in downtown Dallas.
Dallas police were called to the branch, as well as Chase Tower, and the protestors were asked to leave. Dallas officers informed the protestors at the bank branch that none of them would be arrested if they complied with the criminal trespass warning and vacated the property.
Many of the protestors refused to leave and, as a result, the Dallas Police Department arrested 23 people for criminal trespass.
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Shortly before 4 p.m., on their Facebook page, the organization relayed information to supporters about moving the protests to Lew Sterrett Justice Center to protest the arrests.
NBC 5 crews say around 30 protestors are stationed around the Justice Center, waiting for the arrested protestors to be released.
A Dallas detective says the process is being delayed in the jail, due to some protestors not identitifying themselves with the correct name. Those individuals are being fingerprinted to have their information checked against state databases.
Video of the arrests was published to YouTube shortly after 3 p.m.
Dallas police are expected to remain at both locations for the next several hours. According to the group's schedule on their website, supporters from the encampment were to march on Chase Tower at 5 p.m., that obviously changed. On Facebook, the group said the protest was planned from noon to 5 p.m.
The group is currently occupying and living in a section of land at Dallas' City Hall Park as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement."
from NBC-Dallas Fort Worth:
23 Arrested after Occupy Dallas Protest at Chase Bank
Mon Oct 24, 2011
by Frank Heinz
"Nearly 2 dozen Occupy Dallas protestors were arrested after a demonstration outside of Chase Tower and a Chase Bank branch in downtown Dallas Monday afternoon.
At about 2:15 p.m., NBC 5 got word that protestors were said to be blocking customers from entering the Chase bank at Main and Akard in downtown Dallas.
Dallas police were called to the branch, as well as Chase Tower, and the protestors were asked to leave. Dallas officers informed the protestors at the bank branch that none of them would be arrested if they complied with the criminal trespass warning and vacated the property.
Many of the protestors refused to leave and, as a result, the Dallas Police Department arrested 23 people for criminal trespass.
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Shortly before 4 p.m., on their Facebook page, the organization relayed information to supporters about moving the protests to Lew Sterrett Justice Center to protest the arrests.
NBC 5 crews say around 30 protestors are stationed around the Justice Center, waiting for the arrested protestors to be released.
A Dallas detective says the process is being delayed in the jail, due to some protestors not identitifying themselves with the correct name. Those individuals are being fingerprinted to have their information checked against state databases.
Video of the arrests was published to YouTube shortly after 3 p.m.
Dallas police are expected to remain at both locations for the next several hours. According to the group's schedule on their website, supporters from the encampment were to march on Chase Tower at 5 p.m., that obviously changed. On Facebook, the group said the protest was planned from noon to 5 p.m.
The group is currently occupying and living in a section of land at Dallas' City Hall Park as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement."