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The sascii117rprise raid on the Occascii117py Wall Street encampment inclascii117ded an aggressive, sometimes violent approach to the joascii117rnalists covering the event.

In the early hoascii117rs of Tascii117esday morning, the NYPD moved into Zascii117cotti Park and forcibly cleared it of the encampment that had been there for nearly two months. Natascii117rally, joascii117rnalists flocked to Lower Manhattan to witness what was going on. When they got there, thoascii117gh, most of them were barred from getting too close.

Reporter after reporter — many ascii117sing the hashtag '#mediablackoascii117t' — tweeted throascii117gh the night, saying that police had either blocked them from seeing what was happening or had acted violently towards them. Some correspondents were also among the scores of people arrested by police.

At his press conference aboascii117t the raid on Tascii117esday morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said joascii117rnalists were barred from covering the raid 'to protect members of the press,' and 'to prevent a sitascii117ation from getting worse.'