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Trinity Church Cancels Halloween Events Following Alleged Assault By ‘Occupy’ Protester
A post on the church’s website says the “decision was made out of an abundance of caution as we continue to face safety issues arising from the sidewalk camp in front of Trinity Church.”
A group called “Occupy Trinity Wall Street Church” – which labels itself as “An action of Occupy Wall Street” – set up a makeshift camp on the sidewalk in front of the church.
Last December, Trinity Church told Occupy protesters evicted from Zuccotti Park they couldn’t stay at Duarte Square, which is owned by Trinity Church. The NYPD said 49 Occupy protesters were arrested attempting to scale a chain-link fence or crawl under it in order to gain access to the property.
“They broke into the Duarte property. We said ‘no.’ They’re just angry about it, I guess,” Linda Hanick of Trinity Church told CBSNewYork.com.
The camp started in front of the church in June.
“By mutual agreement reached by consensus… of those occupying the sidewalk we decided to occupy until James Cooper is fired or steps down,” Occupy Trinity Wall Street Church says in a message on their site.
“It started as an Occupy Wall Street protest but we have seen it devolve into a situation of people with a variety of causes,” Hanick said. “Young homeless people have attached themselves to the camp. These young people are resistive to any kind of housing placement or social outreach.”
Timwi
October 17th, 2012
Obama’s people in action.
Hey BFH- have you seen this site? http://octsurprise.com/ It claims in four days it is going to release info about one of the candidates. Thought you might be able to find out who is behind the site, as you have had some success with that before.
IronyCurtain
October 17th, 2012
Mayor Guiliani would know how to haul away that trash in a hurry.
OTA Mom
October 17th, 2012
someone should identify and post the names of the ‘donors’–stop feeding this trash and it will move on
Anonymous
October 17th, 2012
Sounds like a job suitable for NYC’s Dog Catchers, err, Animal Control Officers
Nutjob
October 17th, 2012
These young people are resistive to any kind of housing placement or social outreach.”
Some delequints will never change nor ever buy their own insurance, to bad they’re too stupid to realize Obamas going to fine…err tax them if they don’t. Can’t wait to hear how this is GWs fault.
Stache
October 18th, 2012
I know Fur hates it when people go “who dat?”. He’ll be pround of me! Today, I immediately recognized James Cooper as the author of “The Leather-Stocking Tales”.
-Now, I just have to go see what he said that pssst off the OWS’rs.