Date/Time: 2011:10:02 07:34:57 Source: AFP
ANTI-Wall Street protesters have shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, stranding motorists as thousands of marchers, who have been camping out in the Financial District for weeks, made their way through lower Manhattan.
About 100 cars were left stuck as the Occupy Wall Street protesters covered the span from end to end in another day of demonstrations against high unemployment, bank bailouts and economic uncertainty for the masses.
One irate driver, a Ground Zero construction worker, blasted the pedestrians.
"I work my arse off all day, and these goddamned hippies close down the Brooklyn Bridge so I can't get home?" he said. "This ain't right!"
The protesters, who have repeatedly tussled with police in the two weeks they have spent occupying downtown Manhattan, made their way through the rain from Zuccotti Park to City Hall, where the New York Police Department locked the gates to City Hall Park and diverted them elsewhere.
The crowd then bottlenecked at the entrance to the bridge, tying up traffic as they slowly oozed across in a bid to get to Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Some big-faced names have shown up at the Occupy Wall Street protests, including Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore and Cornell West.
Read on the New York Post how a Congressman was chased from the protest by a heckler.
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