A closed Zuccotti Park is cleaned in New York, Sunday, March 18, 2012. Dozens of police officers cleared the park late Saturday and early Sunday where the Occupy movement was born six months ago and made several arrests after hundreds of protesters returned in an anniversary observance and defiantly resisted calls to clear out. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig
The protester, Chris Casuccio, was at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Saturday, where demonstrators chanted and held impromptu meetings to mark the six months since the movement against economic inequality.
Police moved in around 11:30 p.m. Detective Brian Sessa says the protesters were arrested after they started breaking the park rules against setting up tents.
Police say 73 people were detained. It was unclear how many were still in custody Sunday. Police say they have no information about whether protesters were beaten.
Workers were hosing down the park Sunday as a handful of protesters watched from outside metal police barricades.
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