I wanted to bring together a few pieces of information which reveal the story.
How wonderful is it that people cared enough to donate and organize a public library of over 5,000 volumes in such a short time? It is the core of human concern, of human giving. But as we know, the park was raided by police and private security and all personal property was seized under falsehood given by police. All items were quickly thrown without regard into the multiple garbage trucks brought by police. Understanding that something was wrong, protesters at one point even blocked the path of one such garbage truck for an extended period of time.
A friend who lives near Zuccotti posted this on Facebook:
Bloomberg said this a.m. that people can go pick up their stuff that was taken from the park last night from the Sanitation Dept. garage on the west side. But the Sanit crews were told to treat it all as trash and they dumped and destroyed much of it including not only the OWS Library >5k of books but all the medical supplies in the med tent. I've heard people who were there last night say the garbage men were taking things home saying "this would just go to the landfill if I didn't take it" when told it was private property.
Proof:
As the two men talked, a sweaty-faced man wearing a neon vest over a business suit walked up and started tearing protest signs off the wall."I couldn't wait," he said. "Destroying things never felt so good."
"Really," someone said, almost inflecting the word as a question.
"They're fucking assholes," the guy in the suit shot back.
Another guy came up to Eddie. "How are we about hooking up the fire hydrants?" he asked. "We talkin' to somebody?"
"Do it. Do it," Eddie said over the roar of a garbage truck.
The green vests are Brookfield Properties executives and private security. Brookfield owns Zuccotti park. They are the ones seen in this video throwing a protester over a barricade onto the cement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xzfcJqV6uksand along with police, punching a woman in the face. She had peskily been proffering actual court orders to allow protesters back into the park. Occurs at 1:45.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxR8VHFvsl8&list=FLmbtpDQcIb2UFYtrWBjFCkA&index=9&feature=plpp_videoSources:
Hell Hath No Fury
What is left of the 5000+ volumn People's Library -- (dial-up warning)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2323217Exclusive Video: Inside Police Lines at the Occupy Wall Street Eviction
Amid this morning's crackdown on Zuccotti Park, I was one of the only reporters bearing witness.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-police-raid-evictionBrookfield Properties Security Calls Me a Faggot at Zuccotti Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4CI3OFYB_UOne photo from cryptome.org