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Reported by: Dustin Barnes

Email: dbarnes@fox16.com

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Updated: 5/16/2012 5:20 pm

Published: 5/16/2012 8:16 am

LITTLE ROCK, AR – Little Rock police arrested 4 occupy members who refused to leave their downtown campsite Wednesday afternoon.

The deadline for the group to vacate was 7am on Wednesday. Police arrived around 2pm and began barricading and roping off the area, telling all inside to get out.

Four occupy members stayed inside, respectfully declining to leave. After a short conversation with the Police Chief Stuart Thomas, the 4 were arrested. Police say they will be charged with failure to disperse, a misdemeanor.

The 4 arrested are 47-year-old Amy Cicrello, 57-year-old Greg Deckelman, 54-year-old Glen Miller, and 27-year-old Jennifer Pierce. They were cited and released on their respective charges.

For the past two days, Deckelman has said he plans on filing a lawsuit after his arrest.

Occupiers plan to meet at the Clinton Library at 7pm Wednesday to discuss their next move. Deckelman said the group wanted to move their camp to a new site near MacArthur Park. It is not know if they have followed through with the application permit to do so.

Associated Press

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backinaction - 5/17/2012 7:23 AM

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The city of Ltiile Rock should sue the OLR morons for the money wasted on getting their trashy butts off of public land and the money spent cleaning up the eyesore.

sambola - 5/16/2012 4:59 PM

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Mr. bean, I would suggest that the Occupy folks could use a little of that Grecian Formula for defying stuff. All 4 (snicker) of them.

randalbean - 5/16/2012 4:26 PM

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Icarpe - I don't need a slave job nor a slave haircut anymore. Your attitude toward sorry Americans is un-American, and anti-Christian. It's even anti-Jewish. Wpsark - The military should deliver my mail, be our Supreme Court, and run our National Parks? A 67-year-old who can't afford to retire should join the military? The government does owe me oil money! Truth Teller - The Soviet Union failed because of drunks and organized crime. In some countries run by socialists the workers can retire earlier than the sheeple in the U.S. Backinaction - The ignorant side of my family is my mom's side - all from arkieland. Hawgie - The economic collapse in Europe was started by American capitalists. I'm descended from European aristocracy - no kidding! Sambola - We need for people in Greece to come here to teach Americans how to defy Republicans.

sambola - 5/16/2012 3:38 PM

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Mr. bean, there's already something very close to what you suggest; its called Greece; maybe you should move there?

Hawgie - 5/16/2012 2:48 PM

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I saw the ones that got arrested. It's just like the OLR people said. No white trash hippies were there. Deckelman is a clean cut guy who is the epitome of class. I hope this is over. It's a shame the city has to waste time and money on them. Hopefully a judge will dismiss whatever they file. RANDALBEAN....you would fit in perfect in Europe. They're doin great over there I hear.

mikesmothers - 5/16/2012 2:46 PM

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We have freedom of speach and the right to a peacefull assembly, but what the hell gives these jokers the right to homestead city property? Must be a new law I haven't seen on the books yet.

1gmama - 5/16/2012 2:37 PM

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Randalbean what ever you are smoking i want some of that and I don't even smoke, you are cracking me up.

backinaction - 5/16/2012 2:01 PM

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7 hours late. Dont ask them to leave, arrest every last one of them. There are a string of charges they could be charged with.

backinaction - 5/16/2012 1:45 PM

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randallbean, either your entire family is ignorant or you did not get any of their intelligence in your "inheritance." I have two words for ya pal, they rhyme with truck golf.

wpsark - 5/16/2012 12:56 PM

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@truthteller, perhaps Saudi Arabia would be a good place for him to call home. That way, he won't have to work and he can live off the govt's oil money..

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