CNN The 2010s June 4, 2024 01:08:00
They were havin' a march across the brooklyn bridge. the nypd put a massive police force on the bridge. [crowd] the whole world is watching! the whole world is watching! [will] they used the classic technique of kettling to surround these protestors and give them no way to get off the bridge. and they arrested 800 people for protesting that day. [crowd] shame! shame! shame! shame! that kinda conflict absolutely brings the attention. and in that way, it helped further the occupy goal of putting economic inequity, the 99% versus the 1%, into the public discourse. and that became mainstream. it l...