NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police have made the first arrest at the Occupy New Orleans gathering.
A man who threatened another person with a machete and forced the victim to leave the park was arrested Wednesday.
Cmdr. Jeff Walls, of the New Orleans Police Department, says the incident with the machete was the first one where someone was arrested at the camp.
Police say the man may have been a homeless man not associated with Occupy New Orleans, a movement that sprung up in sympathy with demonstrations in New York and other cities to protest corporate influence on politics, among other issues.
 
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