Occupy DC Loses Preliminary Injunction Park Police Ok’d to remove ‘Tent of Dreams’

Washington, DC (Feb 3) – Earlier today a Federal Court Judge cleared the way for Park Police to begin removing specific articles from the Occupy DC’s encampment located in McPherson Square.

The court order allows the National Park Police to remove all sleeping materials, sleeping bags, pillows, air mattresses along with, giving permissions to remove the “Tent of Dreams” a blue tarp placed over the statue of General McPherson. Earlier in the week, a court order released authorized the removal of any persons found sleeping in the park. Since that time, a stay-awake vigil has been underway.

Today’s decision reversed Thursday’ motion by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, which found the demonstrators, had “not shown any imminent actual injury that threatens their tents” adding, “any future closings of the square remains too hypothetical for the court to address.”

Currently, the tarp covering the statue remains intact leading to the assumption that any actions taken against the group, may happen during the early morning hours as, most of the evictions carried out against the groups across the nation have.

Earlier in the week, police responded to a fight, which broke out between two members of the movement apparently over a pair of boots, one person was arrested. Shoving matches have broken out between citizens outraged over the movement’s placement of the tarp over the general’s statue however no arrests were reported in those incidents.

During an Occupation March of Solidarity with their Oakland counterpart’s on Sunday, at least one camera operator was attacked by a splinter group of the movement accusing independent observers as being police officers filming attendees in order to facilitate arrests.

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