The protesters were removed by police. (William Farrington)
Nine ACT UP protestors in Robin Hood costumes were arrested after chaining themselves to a lamppost and disrupting traffic in the Financial District, cops and witnesses said.
The activists chanted and waved signs that read “Tax Wall Street” and “End AIDS” after forming a human chain in the crosswalk across the New York Stock Exchange on Broadway and Broad Street.
Emergency Service Unit cops used bolt cutters to break open the locks and rounded the protesters up into their vans at 9:50 a.m.
Demetris Brown, 22, a protester at the rally, said: “Everyone chained themselves together and police came to break up the locks and locked everyone up.”
ACT UP will be holding a daylong demonstration in Lower Manhattan today. They are calling for a small tax to raise money to combat the global AIDS epidemic.