Cops arrest Occupy Philly member
Police arrested a 47-year-old man earlier today after a woman was assaulted at the Occupy Philly Dilworth Plaza camp site.
Cops arrest Occupy Philly member
David Gambacorta
Police arrested a 47-year-old man earlier today after he was accused of assaulting a woman at Occupy Philly Dilworth Plaza camp site.
Chief Inspector Joseph Sullivan said the 45-year-old victim told police the man punched and slapped her shortly before 1 a.m.
Investigators found the man several hours later and arrested him. Sullivan said the victim and the man who is accused of attacking her are both homeless. Both told police they were a part of Occupy Philly.
At some point overnight, Sullivan said, the walls below Dilworth Plaza were tagged with fresh graffiti -- and feces.
"The sanitary condition [below the plaza] are out of control," Sullivan said. "It makes you want to throw up."
Time to move "em out.— safetydan- Time to move 'em out.— safetydan
- Bring in about 5 fire trucks and hose them out. Let our people who were suppose to start jobs there today get to work. The holidays are comming and I am sure they need cash for their families.— vallymom
Comment removed.- The Occukooks will blame it on "outsiders". They are pure as the driven snow.— ObamaSolyndra
- Don't stop there. Arrest them all if they don't agree to move within a reasonable amount of time.— featherman
- Give them notice right now that they are to be out by midnight. If not, move them out or arrest them in the middle of the night and have the plaza disinfected by morning. — jfar86
- I keep thinking "what would Frank Rizzo do" if he were around....— jimmymac515
- What would Mayor Goode do? "MOVE" them?— HTownInTheHouse
- I think we should do nothing until the day the Dilworth project is going to start and see what the union workers do when they can't start working. That'll get rid of them.— brob1900
- Hey Chief Sullivan - bring in the newly formed Mounted Unit to move 'em out!— themilkman
- I agree with most of the Occupy Wall street statements about 'Wall Street,' but this is turning into nonsense.— SoundGround
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- Move em out. We want our city plaza back.— manyhats
- When are we going to start arresting the people who smear excrement on the subway walls?— Susie from Philly
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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