Mysterious surveillance equipment at Occupy Wall Street one year anniversary

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The NYPD deployed multiple TARU surveillance teams throughout the streets on Monday as activists gathered for a one year anniversary celebration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The TARU (which stands for Technical Assistance Response Unit) teams filmed protesters with handheld cameras, moving throughout crowds and following shortly behind the white shirted police officers who swept in to make arrests.

The area surrounding Zuccotti park and the NY stock exchange contained multiple surveillance towers as well as cameras affixed to poles hoisted from unmarked police cars. Also present was an unmarked police truck with this attached to the roof [more]