| richardhutnik said: Ok, file this under don't attempt to close your checking account at any bank where there is a protest going on. This video is now up on YouTube. Apparently 99%ers attempted to close their checking accounts in protest, and got arrested. A woman goes in to, what looks like the same, to close here checking account, and half a dozen police haul her away and arrest her. The short of it? Don't attempt to close a checking account during a day of protest... Here is the video:
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Actually, according to the news she did get her account closed. She was however, arrested for refusing to leave afterwords.
"Five people wearing masks were arrested earlier in the day, and two dozen were arrested on charges of criminal trespass when demonstrators entered a Citibank bank branch near Washington Square Park and refused to leave, police said. One protester was arrested on a charge of resisting arrest.
Citibank said in a statement that police asked the branch to close until the protesters could be taken away. "One person asked to close an account and was accommodated," Citibank said."
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/16/3210274/thousands-of-protesters-fill-nycs.html#ixzz1av51NxFc
