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IMC-DC | 27.09.2002 14:49

Breaking News 9/27/02

10:15am: Legal Update!!! @5:30am...police searched a NW house and cars...@7:30am...21 people arrested at 14th and Independence (7 women/14 men)...@8:30am...K and Vermont about 100 people arrested. 2 people taken in a 5th district van. Unclear where they are...@8:35am...12th and H 70 people arrested 2 busses)...@9:25am...Conn and K around 30 people arrested...and now...@Pershing Square (across from Freedom Plaza)200 people penned in.
Police have targetted: medics, legal observers, law collective volunteers.
Some people in jail have had nerve damage because their handcuffs were too tight. Most of the protesters are at Blue Plains in SE DC

10:13am: Freedom Plaza update from ACC. There have only been a few arrests and people have been very peaceful. Cops are hurding people into one corner of the park. And bringing in new vans.

10:09am: 15th and Penn.: A third Indymedia reporter--this one from Florida--was arrested between 9 and 10am.

9:56am: Everyone in Freedom Plaza is being detained. The situation has de-escalated. People are just sitting in the park and more police are arriving every moment. There is a ton of media covering the event.

Earlier (8:30am-9:45am): breaking news including many, many arrests.

Earlier (7am-8:30am): breaking news from K and Vermont Snake March.

Meanwhile at the World Bank @ around 7am...more police presence.
Meanwhile in the corporate media...The Washington Post has it's own dispatch system running. And activists from across the country are weighing in on the corporate media coverage.

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