Police erected barricades on Thursday around a San Francisco park
where hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters braced for eviction two
days after failing to agree to a city plan for relocating their camp.
Occupy San Francisco is believed to be the largest of a dwindling
number of West Coast protest settlements aligned with the 2-month-old
national movement protesting economic inequality, after a larger group
in Los Angeles was evicted earlier in the week.
The purpose of the fencing put up around Justin Herman Plaza in San
Francisco’s Financial District was not immediately clear, but most
police officers left after it was installed, and a raid on the
encampment there did not seem imminent.
Shortly after police installed the barricades along three sides
of the park, protesters bandied together to haul away the fencing from
one of those sides as more than a dozen officers stood by watching.
Protesters then chanted “Cops go home.”
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