United States - Journalists arrested and obstructed again during Occupy Wall Street camp eviction

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“Zuccotti Park is not Tiananmen Square,” said Scott Stringer, the Borough of Manhattan's Democratic Party president, criticizing the way the New York police manhandled reporters and kept them at a distance as they evicted Occupy Wall Street protesters from their camp in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in the early hours of yesterday. According to the Associated Press, at least half a dozen journalists were arrested during the operation, adding to the already long list of media freedom violations (...)

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