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Boston Police & Massachusetts State Police Raid #OccupyBoston Camp

2:13 AM Boston sanitation workers being used to dispose of tents from the camp

2:08 AM Easily more than 100 arrested

2:04 AM First video coming out of veterans being arrested

1:58 AM Occupy Boston raided by Boston security forces including the bomb squad and riot police. Massachusetts state police come assist Boston security forces in the raid. Protesters dragged and beaten. At least one photographer charged.

1:42 AM Police in riot gear have moved in and are making arrests. Zipties are being put on occupiers. Reports of military veterans who are part of Veterans for Peace being beaten by police.

1:38 AM Another photo from Matt Filipowicz shows the police with clubs lined up

1:28 AM Police at Occupy Boston

via @KM_Zencat

1:03 AM Photographer Paul Weiskel reports, “Police lights visible everywhere. Single paddy wagons circling square fast. No confrontation yet.”

12:26 AM Matt Filipowicz posts this photo of Veterans for Peace members saying they will put bodies in between police and occupiers if Occupy Boston if there is a crackdown

12:18 AM Occupy Atlanta also facing possible police crackdown. They are talking about needing more people to support the occupation and defend against arrests by police. The occupiers are saying something about the mayor of Atlanta coming down to visit Occupy Atlanta. It seems like the mayor wants to communicate they will be allowed to leave peacefully but no person wants to leave.

12:10 AM Cops in riot gear on the scene – at High St and Pearl

11:49 PM Report from Matthew Filipowicz of AlterNet that police have handed fliers to occupiers in second camp warning them that if they do not leave they will be arrested.

11:42 PM Boston Globe reports: “Boston police were warning the more than 1,000 Occupy Boston protesters tonight to leave a large section of the Rose Kennedy Greenway that they occupied earlier and relocate to Dewey Square or a small, adjacent strip of the Greenway.”

6:15 PM Police today brought paddy wagons and threatened #OccupyBoston protesters with mass arrest if they did not leave the bridge, so the protesters opted to leave.

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Police Threaten Mass Arrest at #OccupyBoston

Police today brought paddy wagons and threatened #OccupyBoston protesters with mass arrest if they did not leave the bridge, so the protesters opted to leave.

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Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure."

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