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ALBANY, N.Y. — Several Occupy protesters were pepper sprayed by a police officer on horseback after a confrontation broke out when police took the last tent away from their dismantled encampment in a city park Thursday evening.
A dozen city workers backed by about 20 police officers, including two on horseback, removed tents from the Occupy Albany encampment starting in the afternoon after a judge issued a court order for removal. The protesters tried to keep what they call their info tent, saying they thought they had an agreement to keep that one with nobody sleeping in it.
About 20 protesters linked arms and surrounded the large aluminum-frame tent. A police supervisor said people could stay but the tents and belongings had to go. When the cleanup crew started to dismantle it, the protesters lifted the last tent and carried it away. They marched to City Hall, where police blocked the doors, and then more than 50 demonstrators walked, chanted and carried it in two long loops around downtown streets, with a police escort blocking traffic.
"For every eviction, another occupation!" they chanted. "All day, all week, occupy Albany!"
Contact Police Chief Steven Krokoff
Contact Police Chief Steven Krokoff
165 Henry Johnson Blvd,Albany, New York 12210
518-462-8013
skrokoff@albany-ny.org
http://www.albanyny.org/Government/Departments/Police.aspx
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