We woke up to a text message this morning from a friend of ours who has been sleeping at Zuccotti Park over the past couple of weeks that read, “Cops using sound weapons on us. good thing I bought ear plugs.” Here’s Mayor Michael (“No one is a bigger defender of the First Amendment than I am”) Bloomberg’s rather lengthy explanation on why he ordered this morning’s raid on Occupy Wall Street:
Is it possible this, too, was strictly Brookfield’s decision again?