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Tue Jun 5, 2012, 10:30 AM Jun 2012

Pressure On Trinity Church To Call Off Occupy Wall Street Trespassing Charges

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/pressure_on_tri.php

Pressure On Trinity Church To Call Off Occupy Wall Street Trespassing Charges


By Nick PintoMon., Jun. 4 2012 at 5:00 AM

Trinity Church, a massive New York landowner with an estimated $1 billion in real estate holdings, is once again at odds with Occupy Wall Street, the movement that sprung up in its back yard.

The relationship between Trinity and Occupy has been fraught almost from the start, but tensions escalated last winter, after the NYPD evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park, when protesters asked the church for sanctuary in an unused church-owned plot in Duarte Square.

The church refused, and on December 17, the protesters, led by clergy including retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard, jumped the chain-link fence anyway, prompting dozens of arrests.

Many of those arrested that day are scheduled for trial next Monday, June 11, charged either with violation-level trespass or with criminal trespass in the third degree, a charge which can carry three months of jail time.

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