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[Florida International University] Police Arrest Occupy Activists For Attempting Concert
At 4:33 p.m., after about an hour of negotiating with the officers, police gave them five minutes to clear out of the pit, telling William Sanchez of Occupy FIU that “diplomacy is over.”
So the band started packing up and the other students gathered their belongings to make their way across campus to the free speech zone.
At 4:37 p.m., an FIU student began speaking on a megaphone, telling fellow activists that they should all write letters to the administration to complain about not being able to go through with their concert as they were promised.
An officer ordered him to stop talking on the megaphone, which apparently violated their no amplifier rule.
So the student put the megaphone down and yelled “mic check” to begin the Occupy method of speaking to a large crowd by having them repeat each line he speaks.
At 4:38 p.m., police moved in and started making arrests, making good on their five-minute promise.
http://www.miamibeach411.com/news/Occupy-FIU
So the band started packing up and the other students gathered their belongings to make their way across campus to the free speech zone.
At 4:37 p.m., an FIU student began speaking on a megaphone, telling fellow activists that they should all write letters to the administration to complain about not being able to go through with their concert as they were promised.
An officer ordered him to stop talking on the megaphone, which apparently violated their no amplifier rule.
So the student put the megaphone down and yelled “mic check” to begin the Occupy method of speaking to a large crowd by having them repeat each line he speaks.
At 4:38 p.m., police moved in and started making arrests, making good on their five-minute promise.
http://www.miamibeach411.com/news/Occupy-FIU
More video and updates:
http://www.miamibeach411.com/news/fiu-president