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OCCUPY PROTESTERS CUT THROUGH FENCE ON CHURCH’S LOT — COPS POUR IN & MAKE ARREST

Occupy Wall Street protesters cut through a fence on a lot owned by Trinity Church, a major landowner in Manhattan. Earlier this morning, the New York Times reported.

At 11 a.m. two protesters dressed in black, wearing black bandannas over the lower part of their faces, used bolt cutters to snip through the chain-link fence and the crowd began streaming in.

Around 11:50 a.m. EST, protesters said, via the Occupy live feed, that the church has asked them to leave and is saying that they are not welcome. But directly after this statement was made, protesters then said that this wasn’t an official word from the church.

Around 11:55 a.m. EST, the police moved in and arrested numerous individuals who had crossed onto the church’s property.