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| Despite the (outrageous) ban on media at the park, as hundreds of NYPD cops in riot gear cleared the peaceful demonstrators for 'health' reasons tossing them out of their tents, onto the streets and into the night -Mother Jones reporter Josh Harkinson was able to make his way under the barricades and back into the park.At the time he did so, there were a few dozen protesters left, holding firm around what had been the Kitchen Tent. It seems he may have been the only reporter in the park at that moment. Then, as he described this morning, the cops began 'indiscriminately dousing the peaceful protesters with what looked like pepper spray or some sort of gas.' He tweeted at the time that 'Everyone I witnessed being arrested was resisting peacefully.'But it was his incredible account of what had happened to him after that moment, as told in a series of tweets that he shared. |
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