Top of the Hour: Arrests at Occupy Protests on Both Coasts, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

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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