What a joke.
(Fox News) — Wall Street protesters declared a minor victory Monday when they defied a midnight deadline to leave their tent city encampment around City Hall and police withdrew after surrounding the camp for six hours without moving in.
Four people were arrested as police cleared downtown streets to make way for morning rush hour traffic, but police said the event was largely peaceful.
Police Chief Charlie Beck said it remains unclear when the nearly two-month-old Occupy LA camp would be cleared. About half of the 485 tents had been taken down as of Sunday night, leaving patches of the 1.7-acre (0.7-hectare) park around City Hall barren of grass and strewn with garbage.
“There is no concrete deadline,” Beck told reporters Monday morning after hundreds of officers withdrew without moving in on the camp. The chief said he wanted to make sure the removal will be done when it was safe for protesters and officers and “with as little drama as possible.”
Protesters chanted “we won, we won” as riot-clad officers left the scene.
“I’m pretty much speechless,” said Clark Davis, media coordinator for Occupy LA.