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TULSA, Oklahoma -- Police arrested 10 Occupy Tulsa protesters after they refused to leave a city park at 6th and Boston early Wednesday morning.
The arrests happened at 1:45 a.m., Nov 2nd 2011. Police said the protesters were in violation of the park's curfew.
Many of the 40 Occupy Tulsa protesters left when police made the announcement, but several refused to leave.
Tulsa Police say those who refused to leave grabbed a hold of each other to show they were refusing to leave.
At that point, Tulsa Police started using pepper spray.
The protesters who were arrested were taken to the Tulsa County jail and booked on complaints of resisting arrest and violation of the park's curfew.
According to Tulsa County jail records those arrested by Tulsa Police include:
John Harlien -- Tulsa
Amanda Hammack -- Tulsa
Lawrence Black -- Austin, Texas
Shane Algiere -- Tulsa
Masar Alabdul-Baqi -- Tulsa
Jeffrey Key -- Tulsa
Brittany Mercer -- Tulsa
Samval Molik -- Tulsa
Elias Sliva -- Tulsa
John Vanzant -- Mounds, Oklahoma
After posting bond, seven of them returned to the park at 6th and Boulder to continue their protest.
( with reporting from http://www.newson6.com )
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Location: downtown Tulsa, 6th and Main
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More arrests, 2nd Nov 11:40 pm
Story, with names and photos, in the Tulsa World:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articl...
Unlike the protesters who were arrested early Wednesday, many of the protesters arrested Wednesday night do not live in Tulsa.
Six of those arrested were :
Ventura Irael Esquivel, 24 of Oklahoma City;
Sean Colin Lovell, 25 of Blanchard, Okla.;
Jacob Aaron Miramontes, 19 of Oklahoma City;
Nicholas Miller Saltzman, 18 of Oklahoma City;
Sean Arthur Scotney, 35 of Tulsa; and
Destiny Jasime Smith, 21 of Oklahoma City.
Records were not immediately available for the others arrested.
Two of the 10 arrested live outside Tulsa — and one outside the Tulsa area, records show.
The protesters have camped at the park since Friday. They are part of a
movement that sprang up in cities across the country after the Occupy
Wall Street protesters began squatting in a New York City park in
September.
“Corporate welfare,” particularly for financial institutions, and the
growing concentration of wealth appear to be the Occupy groups’ leading
concerns.
However, the Occupy Tulsa crowd now seems to be more interested in
fighting for their constitutional rights to peacefully assemble and to
petition the government for a redress of their grievances. They maintain
that those rights trump any city ordinance that sets a park curfew.
(reporting by Amanda Bland, TW)
More details on the veteran from Tulsa arrested with the other 9 protesters engaged in civil disobedience, as part of OccupyTulsa, from coverage provided by Channel 8 tv news:
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