#OccupyLA – Images Of The Morning After The Raid
by Nicole Powers
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Just over 24 hours before #OccupyLA would have celebrated its 2-month anniversary, the encampment at City Hall in DTLA was raided. The operation involved 1400 police officers and resulted in 200+ arrests (update: LAPD have confirmed a total of 292). After staging and loading into buses at Dodger Stadium earlier in the evening, police swarmed Solidarity Park from the outside in, and from the inside out - with officers in riot gear and hazmat suits pouring out of the South Doors of City Hall. The LAPD claim that there were only 3 violent incidents resulting in injury. The last of the protesters - 4 people and a dog - that had been holding out in a tree house, were removed from their tree top fort with the help of a cherry picking mobile platform and rifles firing bean bag rounds just before dawn. Clean up crews quickly moved in to dismantle the camp. These images were shot between 7 and 8 AM today.
RIP #OccupyLA at #Solidarity Park. Long live #Occupy. You can't remove, arrest, destroy, bulldoze, or dispose of an idea.
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We sidestep some of LA's finest to shoot what's left of Solidarity Park.
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As we shoot through the fence in one area an officer tells us "the sidewalk is closed."
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We are a peaceful movement. Never stoop to their level. One love.
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A tent is dragged to a dumpster by a member of the cleanup crew.
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And another one.
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Wishes written by children from the #OccupyLA creche are still attached to a tree.
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A news crew reporting on the aftermath amidst the rubble.
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#OccupyScience
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Here's to the death of mindless consumerism.
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Camp life sure was colorful.
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A trash truck moves into the heart of Solidarity Park.
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A bamboo sculpture gets trashed and compacted.
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The white stuff piled up in the foreground is discarded disposable hazmat suits.
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Remember: Close your account.
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The bulldozers move in.
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Concrete barriers are transported to City Hall.
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A bulldozer moves a concrete barrier into place.
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City Hall is now a fortress surrounded by concrete barriers and wire fencing.
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But the protesting don't stop.
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Waiting for peace at a bus stop as the sun rises.
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Picking through the rubble. Just after I took this picture, this chap found a pair of socks!
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A displaced member of the #OccupyLA community is happy to have rescued his belongings.
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More displaced set up home a few blocks away.
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The site of #OccupyLA's last stand. The Freedom Fort occupied by Manny, Chad, Shane, Lucky, and a dog - who was technically the last occupier to leave the park!
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They were the dreamers - indeed a friend told a livestreamer that Manny had wanted to build a tree house ever since he was a kid. Not sure getting arrested was on his wish list though.
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No prizes for guessing what these are!
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