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VIDEO: Occupy Boston protesters arrested, kitchen sink seized
A standoff between Boston Police and occupiers ended with an arrest late Thursday night after officers apprehended a makeshift sink being delivered to Dewey Square.
According to police, Atlantic Avenue was temporarily blocked off and one protester was arrested for disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a public employee as member’s of Occupy Boston allegedly tried to keep police from removing the sink from the property.
Officers eventually hauled away the sink in a police vehicle.
According to police on the scene, new materials have been barred from being brought into the campsite.
The sink, which cost the group roughly $200, was made so occupiers could address complaints city officials made in a court hearing earlier in the day in regards to sanitation and dirty dishes.
The “greywater system sink” was designed by someone from MIT, according to protester Robin Jacks.
Greywater systems take water used from dishwashing and allow users to recycle it for landscape irrigation.
“It’s ironic that the city would complain in court about sanitation and in the same day remove a sink,” said B from Allston.
B, who wouldn’t give a full name, said campers are constantly working to improve the site at Dewey Square.
“When we try and get the sink, they then tell us we are being violent,” he said.
After the commotion settled, protesters began chanting “whose sink, our sink,” a play on words from one of their regular chants when marching through the streets of Boston.
Just an hour after the sink debacle, Twitter followers of the Occupy Boston movement began changing their icons to pictures of sinks, making jokes about its apprehension by police officials.
According to police, Atlantic Avenue was temporarily blocked off and one protester was arrested for disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a public employee as member’s of Occupy Boston allegedly tried to keep police from removing the sink from the property.
Officers eventually hauled away the sink in a police vehicle.
According to police on the scene, new materials have been barred from being brought into the campsite.
The sink, which cost the group roughly $200, was made so occupiers could address complaints city officials made in a court hearing earlier in the day in regards to sanitation and dirty dishes.
The “greywater system sink” was designed by someone from MIT, according to protester Robin Jacks.
Greywater systems take water used from dishwashing and allow users to recycle it for landscape irrigation.
“It’s ironic that the city would complain in court about sanitation and in the same day remove a sink,” said B from Allston.
B, who wouldn’t give a full name, said campers are constantly working to improve the site at Dewey Square.
“When we try and get the sink, they then tell us we are being violent,” he said.
After the commotion settled, protesters began chanting “whose sink, our sink,” a play on words from one of their regular chants when marching through the streets of Boston.
Just an hour after the sink debacle, Twitter followers of the Occupy Boston movement began changing their icons to pictures of sinks, making jokes about its apprehension by police officials.
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