Occupy Wall Street protest: NYPD accused of heavy-handed tactics | World news | The Guardian: "Activists involved in the march, as well as commentators who are following the protest against inequality and corporate excess, claim the response of the city's police force to the peaceful event was vastly out of proportion.
The total number of people who have been arrested in the past two weeks stands at almost 1,000 – substantially more than the number of financiers who led the world into the 2008 economic meltdown.
As Salman Rushdie put it in a tweet: "The world's economy has been wrecked by these rapacious traders. Yet it is the protesters who are jailed.""
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