‘US police, big banks allied against OWS’

The former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani “had set up, in conjunction with the large banks on Wall Street, a special police unit that was actually private duty police, who were normally on the pay-roll of the city, to work directly for the banks,” said Dave Lindorff, the founder of “This Can’t Be Happening” independent news outlet, during an interview with Press TV’s US Desk on Sunday.

He added that the law enforcement agents “had access to all the intelligence apparatus of the New York Police Department, the largest police department in the country, and they were gathering intelligence on the protests, infiltrating the protests, setting up cameras all over Wall Street.”

The OWS movement erupted when a group of demonstrators gathered in New York’s financial district on September 17, 2011 to protest against corruption, the unjust distribution of wealth in the United States, and the excessive influence of big corporations on US policies.

The comments came as on May 1, millions of Americans are expected to take part in a coordinated protest rally called May Day against corporate greed and economic inequalities in the country.

On Friday, at least six protesters were arrested at the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan on allegations of disorderly conduct and failure to properly follow the police’s instructions.

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

They are targeting corporate stockholder meetings this spring mainly to draw attention to economic disparity in the country.

In response, big US and foreign banks have been working together to “identify, map, and track” protesters across social networks in order to prevent them from disrupting the meetings, according to Brian McNary, director of global risk at Pinkerton Consulting Investigations.

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