A large numbers of Occupy Wall Street campaigners taken into custody
Published by Julia Volkovah under Manhattan, US wealth, Wall Street, Zuccotti Park on 6:08 AM
According to the Police over 700 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement have been detained on New York's City's Brooklyn Bridge.
They were division of a bigger group crossing the bridge from Manhattan, where they have been camped out close to Wall Street for two weeks.
Some gone into the bridge's roadway and were met by a biggest police company and arrested, most for rebellious conduct.
The insecurely-prepared group is agitating against business voracity. They say they are shielding 99% of the US people against the billionaire 1%.
Occupy Wall Street described for 20,000 people to "flood into lower Manhattan" on 17 September and stay there for "only some months".
Numerous hundred stay camped at Zuccotti Park, a privately possessed area of land not far from Wall Street.
A police spokesman referred by Reuters said the detentions came "after a numbers of warnings by police were made to demonstrators to remain on the pedestrian walkway".
"Some fulfilled and took the walkway without being detained. Others protected arms and gone on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway. The last were detained," the spokesman said.
Many were released again shortly afterwards, police said.
Some of the demonstrators said police had permitted them on to the roadway and were accompanying them across when they were enclosed and the detentions started.
"This was not a complaint against the NYPD. This was a complaint of the 99% against the unbalanced power of the 1%," demonstrator Robert Cammiso told the BBC.
"We are not rebels. We are not thugs. I am a 48-year-old man. The first 1% organized 50% of the prosperity in the USA."
Another protester, Henry-James Ferry, said: "It is unfair that our government favors big companies instead of the people.
"I only listen to the protest on day one when I came across it. I then resolute to go back every day," he told the BBC.
The campaigners have had earlier run-ins with New York's police.
On Friday, at least 2,000 people marched under the Occupy Wall Street banner to New York's police headquarters to demonstrate against detentions and police manners.
Some 80 people were captured during a march on 25 September, generally for disorderly behavior and blocking traffic, but one person was alleged with attacking a police officer.
A numbers of other small-scale campaigns have also jumped up in other US cities in an understanding with the objectives Occupy Wall Street.
