An Occupy LA protester is carried away by Los Angeles officers after cops raided the campsite early this morning. Protesters remained on the City Hall lawn despite a deadline, set by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, to dismantle their campsite and leave the park which the city declared closed as of 12:01 a.m. November 28th.
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An LAPD officer points his weapon at demonstrators in a tree early Wednesday morning.
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LAPD arrest protesters who camped out in a tree.
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A protester is arrested as the LAPD dismantles the Occupy LA encampment Wednesday.
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Members of Occupy LA sit in a circle in the middle of their encampment as they wait to be arrested.
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Police officers flooded out of Los Angeles City Hall just after midnight and started dismantling the two-month-old camp, MyFoxLA.com reported.
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Defiant campers who were chanting slogans as the officers entered the park, booed when an unlawful assembly was declared, which paved the way for officers to begin arresting those who did not leave.
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Prior to being deployed, the officers were briefed on the potential for violence and the possibility that demonstrators could throw everything from concrete and gravel to human feces.
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Hundreds of protesters chanted, “The people united will never be defeated,” as officers first surrounded the camp.
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A woman wearing a gas mask glances as police force people on the street to move during an early-morning raid.
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A woman cries as she takes a photograph of police raiding the Occupy LA encampment at City Hall Park early this morning.
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