6 Wall Street protesters arrested in Raleigh

Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site.


Protesters used a ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while others cheered them on. A man in a Santa suit stood on the ladder with others as they ignored "Private Property" signs.


As officers made arrests, protesters shouted obscenities and hollered: "Make them catch you!" The group was inside the lot for a short time before being led out by police in single file. About 50 people were arrested, officers said.


"We're just trying to say that this country has gone in the wrong direction, and we need spaces that we can control and we can decide our future in, and that's what this is about," said David Suker, who was among those who scaled the fence.


Before the arrests, several hundred gathered in Duarte Square, a half-acre wedge of a park at the edge of Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood and across the street from the vacant lot. They gathered partly to mark the three-month anniversary of the Occupy movement and partly to demand use of the lot, owned by Trinity Church.


After police cleared protesters from the lot, about 200 people regrouped for a march on Seventh Avenue. Police began making arrests, tackling at least two people in the street and handcuffing them. When the protesters cleared the avenue, the crowd continued to march to Times Square under a heavy police presence.


Police ended up arresting on charges of failure to disperse: Garth A. Kiser, 33, of Murphysboro, Ill.; Darren Richard Annussek, 36, of Pennsylvania; Joshua F. Eng, 27, of Harrisburg, Penn.; Sarah Lynn Handyside, 29, of Anchorage, Ala.; Dylan Patrick Bozlee, 19, of North Carolina; and Bo Hyun Han, 29, of Suwanee, Ga.


The demonstrators were part of gathering of about a dozen protesters who are marching from New York to Georgia, calling themselves Walking Occupation Marchers. They say their destination is Atlanta.


The marchers arranged ahead of time to meet local supporters in Raleigh'sMordecai Park.


From there the larger group walked from the park to the state Capitol Building and continued heading west on Hillsborough Street to thecity's authorized camp for the protesters.