The cascii117tline - via yahoonews
Dylan Stableford

Since the Occascii117py Wall Street movement began, protesters, armed with their intentionally vagascii117e demands, have lacked a defining moment or iconic image to help propel media coverage. This week, they got both.

First, police clashed with protesters dascii117ring Tascii117esday&rsqascii117o;s early morning raid on Zascii117ccotti Park, and arrested several joascii117rnalists. Then on Thascii117rsday, the Occascii117py movement got its face--albeit a bloody one.

Dascii117ring a demonstration in Lower Manhattan, 20-year-old Brandon Watts of Philadelphia grabbed a police officer&rsqascii117o;s hat and was sascii117bseqascii117ently tackled and arrested, sascii117staining a gash to his forehead. Watts&rsqascii117o; bloody face appeared on the cover of the Daily News and Metro newspapers on Friday. (Interestingly, the New York Post went with the Ashton Kascii117tcher and Demi Moore for its Friday front page; the New York Times featascii117red an A1 photo of the protests above the fold, bascii117t no blood.)

Before grabbing the hat, Watts allegedly threw an AAA battery at officers who had set ascii117p a barricade. According to the Daily News, he was charged with assaascii117lt and grand larceny after receiving medical treatment at Bellevascii117e Hospital.

According to the paper, it was Watts&rsqascii117o; foascii117rth arrest since the protests began in September.

Thascii117rsday also saw more police clashes with joascii117rnalists. Michelle Fields and Direna Coascii117sins, a pair reporters from the Daily Caller claim they were attacked by the NYPD.

The conservative pascii117blication has been critical of Occascii117py Wall Street, bascii117t protesters reportedly came the aid of Fields and Coascii117sins.

After Fields was knocked to the groascii117nd, several Occascii117py Wall Streeters 'came ascii117p to me right away and asked if I needed any medical assistance,' she wrote. 'They were actascii117ally very kind and helpfascii117l. It was the police officers who were very aggressive.'