During the OWC movement, the New York Police arrested some participants which leads to some debates and arguments. On Oct 1, 2011, a large group of protesters set out to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and the police arrested about 700 of them. Most of those who were arrested were released soon, while some of them were still facing the criminal charges.
The NYC Mayor Bloomberg said:" We'll see. People have a right to protest, but we also have to make sure that people who don't want to protest can go down the streets unmolested." "The protester are protesting against people who make $40,000, $50,000 year and are struggling to make ends meet." He also added, "Those are the people that work on Wall Street in the finance sector...If the banks don't go our and make loans, we will not come out of our economic problems. We will not have jobs."
Moreover, President Obama said: "I think it expresses the frustration the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country... and yet you're still seeing efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place." Obviously, he stands for the protesters. However, the Republican president candidate Matt Romney thinks that the movement was Obama's fault. He said there are "bad actors" that needed to found and plucked out." He believes that targeting one industry or region of America is a mistake and regards the OWS as "dangerous" and inciting "class warfare".
Romney later expressed sympathy for the movement, "I look at what's happening on Wall Street and my view is, boy, I understand how those people feel."
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