纽约警方对“占领华尔街”大本营实施清场

New York City police dressed in riot gear began clearing Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, warning Occupy Wall Street protesters remaining at the encampment that they would be arrested and all tents and other personal belongings would be removed.

A man who identified himself as a New York Police Department captain used a bullhorn to order people out of the park, saying repeatedly that a temporary evacuation was necessary to dismantle illegal structures that presented a fire hazard.

At least 400 police officers stood around all sides of the park, where dozens of people remained in place. Public buses operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority were seen pulling up to the site, which has been the center of the Occupy Wall Street movement for nearly two months.

Protesters responded by chanting 'Whose Park? Our Park' and 'You don't have to do this.'

Some protesters positioned near the encampment's kitchen linked themselves together using padlocks.

A police sergeant walked all sides of the park with a bullhorn, carrying a warning that echoed across the small plaza in Lower Manhattan: 'If you refuse to leave the park you will be subject to arrest.'

Sam Wood, a 21-year-old protester who identified himself as a street medic, predicted that a police raid would backfire on the NYPD. He offered protesters vinegar to put on their bandanas.

'You know this is an awful idea,' he said of the police sweep.

Just before 2 a.m., police began to clear the park more aggressively and knocked over the tent from which protesters had been streaming video from Zuccotti Park. One protester refused to get out of the tent, and three officers in riot gear carried him away wrapped in pieces of tent and tarp.

A video stream continued to broadcast, with nearly 20,000 viewers watching the footage online.

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