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Oct. 15, 2011 at 10:14pm with 602 notes

Reblogged from thedailywhat

Second Occupy Movement News Update of the Day: 24 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were locked inside the La Guardia Place Citibank branch and arrested for criminal trespassing. They were attempting to close their bank account at the time.

Footage captured at the scene shows a woman being arrested by a plainclothes cop while shouting “I’m a customer, I’m a customer.”

Earlier it was revealed that the NYPD and several corporations targeted by Occupy Wall Street were tipped off to the protesters’ plans by New York-based computer security consultant Thomas Ryan.

Ryan, who has made a mission out of discrediting the movement, has been monitoring the online activities of Occupy Wall Street organizers since the protest began. Yesterday, Ryan posted to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government the OWS mailing list, which features thousands of email addresses belonging to OWS demonstrators.

Elsewhere, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch was interrupted several times during his speech at the National Summit on Education Reform by Occupy Sesame Street protesters.

“Corporations own all the media in the world; why should they not own all the education as well?,” quipped activist Joe Hill, who was dressed as Sesame Street’s Count. (In Taiwan, Occupy Taipei protesters flashed signs that featured familiar Angry Birds characters.)

In New York, the Take Times Square convergence (AKA The Occupation Party) saw thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters descend on Midtown Manhattan.

The NYPD set up barricades to control the crowds; police in riot gear made an appearance, as did mounted cops and the counter-terrorism unit. According to an eye-witness, police officers have formed a human chain stretching for hundreds of feet.

The latest reports from the scene suggest the police are preparing to start arresting any protester who refuses to clear out. Occupy Wall Street’s official site says the arrests have begun. NY Scanner appears to confirm this.

Watch the Take Times Square standoff unfold live below:

[thedailybeast / wonkette: 1,2 / gawker / ap / reuters / nydn / ows.]