46 Occupy protesters arrested

(CNN) — Police arrested 46 people this morning after they swept through a downtown city square in Boston, Massachusetts, evicting “Occupy” protesters encamped there since late September, officials said.
CNN affiliate WCVB broadcast images of handcuffed demonstrators being led away by police, who first offered the group the option of leaving before making arrests, according to police spokesman Eddy Chrispin.
“The city is in the process of clean-up and trying to restore Dewey Square to its prior state,” said Chrispin. “For the most part, it was nonviolent.”
The arrests were the city’s second large-scale action against demonstrators since the movement began there in late September.
In October, 129 people were arrested during a march in which protesters allegedly blocked traffic and refused to disperse.
The movement, which first sprang up in a Lower Manhattan park, seeks to highlight what it sees as corruption and growing income disparities between the nation’s richest 1 per cent and the rest of the country.