BREAKING NEWS: Police in Riot Gear Enter Zuccotti Park, Order Protesters to Vacate

Police say it is a "temporary evacuation"

NBC,

14 November, 2011

Hundreds of police officers, some in riot gear, descended on Zuccotti Park after midnight Tuesday in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street headquarters.

It comes just two days ahead of a massive planned demonstration Thursday marking the movement's two-month anniversary.

Police handed out letters to protesters ordering them to temporarily evacuate the park, and campers were ordered to remove all their tents. Police claimed it was a health issue, and that the park needed to be inspected.

Protesters were told they will be allowed to return to the park in several hours, but without their property, which will be brought to a sanitation garage.

Some protesters have left but a large number have stayed behind. They chanted at police, "Whose park, our park."

There have been no confrontations so far.

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