The rights of journalists’ has, for the course of this country’s history,  been one of the most sacred institutions.  Even when everything else had gone wrong we were free to talk about, photograph, or video it. We may have been beaten and abused in a lot of ways; however, we did our jobs without fear of arrest, so long as we didn’t legitimately break the law.

Before the occupiers even showed up in any real numbers, the police took to the streets causing far greater disruption than Occupy Wall Street could have ever dreamed.

NYPD had hundreds of vehicles on the streets surrounding Wall Street by 7 am. By 7:30 there were hundreds of police officers lining nearly every street and blocking all access points to Wall Street.

However; the police may have owned the street and Wall Street itself, but the Occupiers owned everything else in the district.