November 27-28th, 2011:
Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment.
Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment.
Protesters begin to flood into 1st Street and block traffic as the midnight deadline draws near.
A protester speaks on a live U-Stream channel about what was happening on the streets.
A protester blocks traffic by sitting in the middle of the intersection on 1st and Spring.
An officer stands in formation at the east crosswalk of 1st and Broadway.
A person argues with an officer about trying to get through the police line so he could get to his bus stop. Everyone was turned away and told to take the long way around the block.
Protesters try to convince the officers to join the 99% and protest aganist corporate greed.
A protester prays on the south steps of the city hall.
Officers charged the intersection of Main and 1st, causing most protesters to flee back into the park.
Police announced anyone in the intersection of Main and 1st to be an unlawful assembly, and gave them ten minutes to go back into the park. Some protesters laid down or sat in the middle of it instead. In this image, a news station interviews a protester who refused to stand.
Police blocked off the entire intersection of 1st and Main.
November 30th, 2011:
Police in riot gear moved into the Occupy LA encampment outside City Hall to enforce the mayor's order to evict protesters who have been camped out for the past eight weeks.
Hundreds of activists, joined by supporters streaming into the area in a show of solidarity, crowded the lawn, sidewalks and streets around City Hall as helmeted officers moved into the encampment.
Police in riot gear moved into the Occupy LA encampment outside City Hall to enforce the mayor's order to evict protesters who have been camped out for the past eight weeks.
Hundreds of activists, joined by supporters streaming into the area in a show of solidarity, crowded the lawn, sidewalks and streets around City Hall as helmeted officers moved into the encampment.
Graffiti is seen written on the left turning lane of 1st st in front of the city hall.
Protesters connecting with the universe before the arrests begin.
Police move in while wearing hazmat suits has police in riot gear begin to trap protesters in the city hall lawn.
