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Wall Street protest grows as unions swell ranks

By REUTERS

OCTOBER 6, 2011 05:06

NEW YORK - Thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators converged on New York's financial district on Wednesday, their ranks swelled by nurses, transit workers and other union members joining the protest over economic inequality and the power of US financial institutions.

The Occupy Wall Street march, estimated at about 5,000 people, was mostly orderly and the largest so far, while smaller protests were staged in cities and on college campuses across the country.

A dozen people were arrested in New York, including one who was charged with assault on a police officer who was knocked from his scooter, according to police spokesman Paul Browne. Others who were arrested had tried to break through a police barricade, Browne said.

One police officer fired pepper spray as a "group of demonstrators charged a line of officers" standing at the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, he said.

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