Police arrest four 99-percenters in NY

The arrests were made on Monday after the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters, who had been spending nights on the sidewalks of the neighborhood, refused to leave as demanded by police.

Three of the arrests were made on Nassau Street and the fourth one took place on Wall Street.

Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer who has worked with the protesters, said the removal of the 99-percenters “raises serious and substantial constitutional and First Amendment issues.”

The organizers have promised further actions to draw renewed attention to their cause.

The Wall Street sleep-outs, which started last Monday, are a new move by the OWS protesters to express their resentment at corporate greed and social injustice.

The protesters use the slogan, “We are the 99 percent” to distinguish themselves from the one percent of Americans who are in possession of the greatest portion of the nation’s wealth.

The US saw the emergence of a popular movement after a group of people on September 17, 2011 rallied in New York’s financial district under the motto of ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ protesting corporatism, corruption, poverty as well as social inequality in the country.

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