Occupy MN protesters march to the Fed [VIDEO]
As their numbers increased in the Hennepin County Government Center
Plaza this afternoon, more and more chatter rose among the Occupy MN
crowd about marching to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The Fed
was the originally planned occupation destination, but organizers
worried that arrests could take place as soon as marchers started
blocking traffic.
"They wanted to just do it," says April Lukes-Streich, one of Occupy MN's organizers. "We were like, 'You guys, don't.'"
Finally word came that if marchers were flanked by Minneapolis
police, they could go at 2:30 p.m. The protesters held themselves back
until about 2.
A hundred or so marchers made their way down the middle of Washington
Avenue to the Fed, and convened briefly in the public plaza outside.
They then marched down into the Fed's adjoining park, which is
technically private property. Police waited at the bottom of the sloped
park.
Check out the march, the park occupation and the police presence below:
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