Meanwhile...Occupy Nashville gets a break

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Very good news:

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111028/NEWS01/111028004/Arrested-Occupy-Nashville-protesters-released
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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed off on the plan to arrest the Occupy Nashville protesters, said Bill Gibbons, Commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security at a 10:30 a.m. press conference with reporters.

He said the state stands by its action and insists it didn’t overreact.

“They were very aware that they were trespassing,’’ Gibbons said of the protesters.


And then:

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2011/10/28/occupy-nashville-protesters-claim-victory-return-to-plaza

A dozen Occupy Nashville protesters, undeterred by their arrests and six hours in detention, have marched back onto the Legislative Plaza this morning claiming victory in their cause.

“Whose plaza? Our plaza!” they yelled as they arrived in the rain.

Enforcing a new 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew on the Capitol grounds, state troopers arrested 29 demonstrators at 3 a.m. and hauled them away in buses to jail, ending the three-week occupation of the Plaza.

The magistrate of the court refused to hear the charges, saying the state didn't give the protesters enough notice of the curfew, which was announced only yesterday afternoon. The judge advised the Highway Patrol to free the protesters. But instead troopers detained them at the jail and began issuing citations for criminal trespass. They finally went free at around 9 a.m.