Overheard in Zuccotti Park, before the march to Foley Square on Wednesday…
A uniformed police officer explaining to a bearded man in a yarmulke, as a topless protester walked by, “We can’t go bottomless because they can’t go bottomless. But topless – a nipple’s a nipple.”
So, that guy with no pants? He’s probably not an undercover cop. Or, so I hear.
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillmanblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.
