Police in the arrest of some 100 demonstrators disperse occupies no Saturday night, hours after officers used tear gas against a group of noisy protesters threw stones and Molotov on them and tore down the walls.
The police sergeant. Christopher Bolton, said the arrests came after protesters marched through central Auckland on Saturday night a little before 8, with some of them enter the building from the YMCA.
At the same time, some 100 policemen surrounded the town hall, while others swept into the building to see if any of the protesters broke.
More assistance from other law enforcement agencies and also on the road, with buses to Members of the Alameda County sheriff arrived at the center of the city on Saturday night.
The arrests occurred at night after taking 19 people arrested in protests in Oakland takes hours earlier.
Police used tear gas and bombs, "flash" on Saturday afternoon the group after some protesters threw stones and other objects at them. Police said three officers were wounded, but did not publish the details.
Police said the group met in the center square on the morning of Saturday, protesters threaten to take over the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. The group then marched in the streets, disrupting traffic.
The crowd grew as the day progresses, this afternoon, with estimates ranging from 1000 to 2000 people.
Police said the protesters marched to the convention center filled, and began the demolition of some of the surrounding walls and the "destruction of building materials," shortly before 03:00.
Police said they were ordered to scatter and used tear gas and smoke after some protesters threw stones and bottles, pumps, fire and other objects.
Police said most of the arrests were made when protesters ignored orders to leave and attacked the officers. Before 4 pm, and the bulk of the crowd left the conference center and returned to the city center.
This event comes after protesters occupied, said this week it plans to move into the vacant building and turning it into a community center and the political center. Is also under threat in an attempt to close the port, occupies the airport and take the municipal building.
In a statement issued Friday said the city manager Diana Santana Auckland City will not be "intimidated by threats of violence or illegal activities."
Acting Police Chief Howard Jordan said that the officers and detention of people working illegally.
Authorities said Friday that since the founding of Auckland for the first field occupies Auckland in late October, police arrested about 300 people.
It occupies the national movement began on Wall Street, condemning corporate excess and economic inequality in the city of New York in the fall, but remained largely inactive in recent times.
And Auckland, New York and Los Angeles among cities with the protests, the biggest concern and more vocal earlier. Disappeared after the demonstrations in the cities the use of force out of hundreds of demonstrators who had set up tents.
In Oakland, police have been heavily criticized by the use of force to disperse the previous protests. Among the critics of Mayor Jean Quan, who said he had not informed about the plans of the ministry. Earlier this month, provided its report to the federal judge appointed by the court, including "serious concerns" about the handling of the protests, the Ministry concerned.
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