The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge
To the Occupy Wall Street protesters, Brooklyn was a target of both strategic and tactical significance.
One of the protesters’ early frustrations was that to the extent they were getting any play in the mainstream media, it portrayed them as white children of privilege, lacking in diversity. The reason that grated on them was because to a certain degree it was true. Planting their protest flag in Brooklyn would open a new front in the city’s largest borough by population — and the heart of what still remained of its middle class. While the smattering of young white hipsters clustered near