Bright lights, loudspeakers kicked off operation to clear Occupy Wall Street park

It began with the rumble of emergency service unit trucks moving along Broadway through Lower Manhattan. The trucks took up positions on either side of the one-square-block Zuccotti Park. Then, as about 220 protesters camped in their tightly packed tents, most of them asleep, powerful klieg lights on the trucks snapped on with a "whoosh!" Now, it was as bright as day, even though it was 1 a.m.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.denverpost.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?a=DseYGIDJB4s:LM0GrvPn5IQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.denverpost.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?a=DseYGIDJB4s:LM0GrvPn5IQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?i=DseYGIDJB4s:LM0GrvPn5IQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.denverpost.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?a=DseYGIDJB4s:LM0GrvPn5IQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.denverpost.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?a=DseYGIDJB4s:LM0GrvPn5IQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dp-news-topstories?i=DseYGIDJB4s:LM0GrvPn5IQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dp-news-topstories/~4/DseYGIDJB4s" height="1" width="1"/> [More]

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