5 U.S. Occupy protesters arrested in Atlanta for defying curfew
Police in Atlanta of the U.S. state of George arrested five Occupy Atlanta protesters early Monday in a downtown park for defying a curfew order issued by city authorities, local media reports said.
A woman protester was arrested in the Woodruff Park, the site of the Occupy Atlanta protests, for refusing to obey an 11 p.m. curfew. Four others on bicycles were arrested near the park for either traffic violations or obstruction of law enforcement, Atlanta police were quoted as saying.
The protesters chanted slogans "We're hungry! We're poor!" at the police, who tried to impose the curfew that started since Saturday night after the city revoked an earlier order to allow the protesters to stay in the park at night, the reports said.
Nineteen people related to the Occupy Atlanta protests, which originated from New York's Occupy Wall Street movement, were already arrested on Saturday night for defying the curfew. This was in addition to about two dozens of arrests made by the police in Woodruff Park last month.
U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson visited Occupy Atlanta protesters in early Saturday evening to show his support, praising the movement as an extension of former great civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign.
The arrests in Atlanta came after the Occupy movement across the U.S. becomes increasingly violent due to police intervention. The Occupy protesters have found a member, injured on Oct. 25 in Oakland, California, as their symbol. Scott Olsen, a former U.S. Marine who served in Afghanistan, received a head wound from a projectile at the demonstration.
About 30 people were arrested last Thursday in Oakland, when police in riot gear fired tear gas and flash grenades to clear a downtown street, where the Occupy protesters gathered.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
English.news.cn 2011-11-08 00:21:34 FeedbackPrintRSS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (Xinhua)
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