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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: The Friday Showdown at Occupy Wall Street [Watch (HLS stream): The Friday Showdown at Occupy Wall Street](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uOq6BtTO.m3u8) (3:45)  _Published 2011-10-14. Protesters in Zuccotti Park were prepared to fight an early morning evacuation by police, but a last minute change by New York City avoided a confrontation and potential arrests_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:18 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Re-entering Occupy Wall Street After Eviction](/video/yJzXMHfS/) ### Re-entering Occupy Wall Street After Eviction [Bill Clinton on Unemployment and Occupy Wall Street](/video/SlPlNHT5/) ### Bill Clinton on Unemployment and Occupy Wall Street [How Occupy Wall Street May Affect the 2012 Elections](/video/67AUceXk/) ### How Occupy Wall Street May Affect the 2012 Elections --- ## Transcript This is what democracy looks like! At 6: 30 on Friday morning, police had completely surrounded Zuccotti Park and for a very tense minute or so, it looked like a showdown was going to come. Our time is now! Our time is now! I'm Nate Rollins. I've been reporting on the Occupy Wall Street movement for time. com. Protesters have been occupying Zuccotti Park near Wall Street 24 hours a day for four weeks. The owner of the park sent a request to the police department, and they asked to have the park cleared, and then to have new rules enforced that would basically prevent people from sleeping there. Occupy Wall Street sent out a call over social media asking for thousands of people to come into the park on Friday morning and help them, as they said, defend our home. They can't just say, using an excuse of, of cleaning a park to stop people from expressing what they feel. it, it infringes on your freedom of speech. Then at the last second, at about six thirty, a woman named Nalini Stamp stood up on the wall and read a statement to defuse the situation. I'd like to read a brief statement from Deputy Mayor Holloway. [ INAUDIBLE ] An enormous cheer erupted from the crowd. [ SOUND ] People began chanting. We are the 99 percent. You are the 99 percent. There was also a palpable sense of relief that we weren't gonna have this huge standoff with thousands of people getting arrested. [ MUSIC ] A little victory in a long war. I have a pension, I have social security. I worry about my children, because the wheeling and dealing of these people that are represented by Wall Street. They're not content with having control of all the wealth that they have. They also have taken control of our very government. My son's in the Navy, he's defending the country. And I'm here, with all these people defending the country also. Damn right. I would've felt guilty if I didn't come down. After, an offshoot of people, maybe 100, 150 or so, decided that they wanted to march on Wall Street. So police called in reinforcements, some of them on horseback. And there was a standoff a few blocks from Zuccotti Park. [ SOUND ] There was, there were altercations, and some rough arrests, Right now we have the number 14. Could go up as more arrests get reported. This could be a watershed moment in this movement because their ability to bring in thousands of people on short notice at 6 am on a Friday morning when a lot of people are at work and a lot of the people in this movement do have jobs. That's very powerful. It also says to Mayor Bloomberg that, he's not gonna get out of this thing that easily. He's not just gonna be able to, close this thing down without, arresting a couple, few thousand people. 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