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Occupy LA protesters who remain in city hall park are "subject to enforcement and arrest at any time", according to a spokesman for LA's mayor.
"As the Mayor and Chief Beck said last week and in a statement last night, the park closed at 12.01am today," the spokesman for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.
"The protesters are being given ample time to remove their belongings and leave the park and it is the Mayor's hope that the closure continues peacefully. Those who remain in the park are subject to enforcement and arrest at any time."
The action in LA overnight was not an attempt to force Occupy LA protesters to leave the camp, a police public relations officer has just told the Guardian.
"We did not force them to leave the camp, to let them know that it was illegal as of 12.01[am] to stay there," officer Rosario Herrara said.
"All we did was just enforce the streets to make sure people were not illegally blocking the streets."
Asked when police would enforce the eviction notice, Herrera said:
"We're going to do it in a timely manner, but we do not know when that is going to occur. They know that they're not supposed to stay overnight, but as of right now we have not enforced anything."
She added police "don't have a date" as to when they will clear protesters from the camp"I don't know exactly how it's going to work, the department's still trying to decide," she said.
LAPD was still deciding "what method they're going to choose" to enforce the notice, Herrera said. "There's a lot of homeless people out in Occupy LA so we have to make sure that they have resources as to where to go."
Herrera said she did not have information on who would making decisions regarding Occupy LA. She confirmed that four people were arrested this morning on suspicion of unlawful assembly, but could not provide further details.
Police are unlikely to attempt clear Occupy LA from city hall park on Monday, according to Reuters.
From their story:
Four demonstrators were arrested on suspicion of being present at an unlawful assembly during the brief confrontation. Police cleared the intersection where protesters had gathered to accommodate morning traffic and then withdrew from the immediate vicinity of the City Hall park.
Across the country, a Sunday deadline set by Philadelphia officials for Occupy protesters there to move out of a municipal plaza to came and went without incident.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had given protesters until 12.01am local time to dismantle their tents and clear out of the park or face a forcible removal.But about two hours after the eviction deadline, police commanders said they would permit the Occupy LA encampment to stay until at least daybreak. Police Commander Andrew Smith later said he thought it "highly unlikely" that the camp would be forced to shut down on Monday.
Dozens of people heeded the evacuation order but many tents and other structures stayed put. Police sources said authorities hoped the rest of the protesters would relocate voluntarily and that no major actions are expected before Tuesday.
Amber Stephens, a freelance journalist based in California, was at Occupy LA until around 6.30am this morning.
Stephens tells the Guardian that after police had told protesters they did not intend the camp, some people were concerned "it may not be true".
At other occupations that's what they said at first and then still cleared the camp, so a lot of people were distrusting of what the police were saying. There were some people who were in the encampment linking arms, not in the intersection but in the encampment thinking that a raid was imminent. But it turns out that police stayed by what they said and they did not clear the camp.
Here's a summary of events in LA.
• Occupy LA protesters remain at their encampment after defying a city order to leave city hall park.
• Thousands of people protested the proposed eviction overnight, spilling out into streets surrounding the downtown camp and blocking roads.
• Police reportedly arrested three people in the early hours of Monday morning, but announced they would not clear city hall park, settling for clearing protesters from roads near 1st and Main.
I've just been speaking to Ed Carrasco, a freelance journalist who was at Occupy LA overnight.
Carrasco said protesters began spilling into the streets surrounding the Occupy LA base at around 11.50pm – some ten minutes before the deadline for them to leave city hall park – after a general assembly.
Police then arrived in riot gear at around 12.20am, and "pretty much cordoned off the area surrounding city hall", Carrasco said.
He estimated there were around 1500-2000 protesters in downtown LA – some at the camp and others on the streets, with some 200-300 police officers.
"There was a mixture of festive atmosphere and defiance."
At around 5am protesters were still gathered in the streets around the park, particularly at the intersection between 1st and Main, Carrasco said.
"Police said it was an unlawful assembly ... but made it clear they were not going to clear the park, they just wanted to clear the street."
By 5.10am the street was clear, Carrasco said, following a mostly peaceful operation, although three people were detained.
Here's a Storify round up of events in LA overnight.
It demonstrates how the situation swung from protesters believing they would be evicted to retaining their camp – for now.
Protesters had been demonstrating in the streets at a downtown intersection, but it appears the road has now been cleared by police.
Occupy LA still has its base at city hall park.
The internet's @OakFoSho is in LA and livestreaming from the scene of the Occupy demonstration.
He's just been present at an impromptu press conference being given by a Commander Smith, a police officer in downtown LA.
The officer said protesters had been asked to leave the park, but did not. He said four people had been arrested, but did not say how long they would be allowed to remain.
Police are reportedly in the process of clearing an Occupy LA demonstration from downtown Los Angeles, after protesters were ordered to vacate their encampment.
Three people have been arrested so far after hundreds gathered at an intersection in the downtown area of the city.
Protesters had been ordered to leave their encampment at city hall park by 12.01am, but instead took to the streets to demonstrate.
The situation remains unclear, with some reports suggesting protesters have been told they will not be arrested in their camp today, however there remains a sizeable police presence.
Protesters have been camping at LA's city hall park for weeks. AP reported people took to the streets after being ordered to leave the camp.
Water bottles were thrown at officers as officers in riot gear started clearing 1st and Main streets just after 5 am local time Monday.
The police department has been on tactical alert, meaning the late night watch was held over, since midnight.
At 4.50am, police on loudspeakers declared an unlawful assembly and protesters were told to get out of the street within five minutes.
Commanders corralled demonstrations back to the City Hall park, telling them they won't be arrested there.
Many tents were dismantled as the deadline loomed.