Wednesday, November 9, 2011

What Happened When I Tried to Get Some Answers About the Creepy NYPD Watchtower Monitoring OWS

Photo Credit: Tam Turse

There’s a metal monster looming over Liberty Square, but don’t ask questions about it or else.

November 6, 2011

LIBERTY SQUARE – The drummers drummed. The guitarists strummed. And the hearty souls building a new society in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park traded in their tarps for tents as the temperature dropped. All the while, Officer Guzman stood watch.

But there was something special about Officer Guzman. He wasn’t one of the 25 police officers I counted standing on the perimeter of Liberty Square that first wintery day. He wasn’t one of dozens more shooting the breeze with their partners inside a police van or sitting alone in a cruiser texting. Officer Guzman spent the day suspended in the air, two stories up, at the corner of Trinity Place and Liberty Street, inside a little metal box that goes by the name Sky Watch.READ MORE

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