Big Three Nets Trumpet Wall Street Protesters 'Proclaiming Victory'

ABC's Good Morning America
07:02 am

JOSH ELLIOT: And we're going to begin there on Wall Street. The breaking news now about the protest there. The protesters refusing to budge this morning as police did threaten to move in and clear them out. ABC's Cecilia Vega is there. And Cecilia, we actually again just heard now that police have postponed the deadline for the crowd to actually move.

CECILIA VEGA: Yes, Josh, there are several hundred protesters out here this morning. And what had been an extremely tense situation quickly turned celebratory when word came down that they don't have to clear out of this park. As you said, these protesters had been preparing for this 7 a.m. deadline to move out. The property owners of this park said they had to leave because this park needed a good cleaning – a power-washing, actually, after four weeks of camping out here. They said this park had become unsanitary.

Now protesters were refusing to leave, police were on stand-by, ready to move in. But as you said last night, the protesters spent the entire evening cleaning this park themselves, hoping to avoid a stand-off. There is tension here in New York City, but it appears there is tension mounting all around this country now, with police in Denver moving in overnight in riot gear on protesters. 10 arrested overnight in Seattle. Back here again in New York City, the scene is a celebratory one. The clean-up goes on. Protesters are chanting that the people of Wall Street will not be defeated, and it appears, Josh, that occupation will go on.