Occupy Portland: Police Move in on Park - A few hundred Occupy Portland demonstrators have remained in defiance of an eviction order. In other cities, officials also are closing encampments.

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Occupy Portland: Police move in on Portland park, some protesters remain

 

Occupy Portland demonstrators have remained in defiance of an eviction order. In other cities, officials also are closing encampments.

By Jonathan J. Cooper and Terrence Petty, Associated Press / November 13, 2011

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Protester John Lonquist hauls garbage across the street while cleaning up camp in the Occupy Portland Camp in Portland, Ore., Sunday, Nov. 13. Under police order, many protesters and homeless people left, but some remain.

Don Ryan/AP

 

Police began moving in on a downtown park Sunday, where a few hundred Occupy Portland demonstrators have remained in defiance of an eviction order.

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Police on loudspeakers warned that anyone who resisted risks arrest and "may also be subject to chemical agents and impact weapons." Demonstrators chanted "we are a peaceful protest."

Mayor Sam Adams had ordered the camp shut down last night, citing unhealthy conditions and the encampment's attraction of drug users and thieves.

 

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