Several hundred Occupy Wall Street protesters marched on City Hall in New York on Wednesday night in solidarity with demonstrators at Occupy Oakland. A dozen arrests were made, and at one point, NYPD officers stretched an orange net across a lower Manhattan street to catch protesters. About 3,000 people protested in Oakland a day after police fired tear gas and bean bag rounds on Occupy demonstrators, resulting in 100 arrests.
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