More than 100 arrests at Occupy Wall St protest

OCCUPY Wall Street activists clashed yesterday with workers and police outside the New York Stock Exchange, prompting more than 100 arrests on the two-month anniversary of the movement’s vocal anti-capitalism campaign.

As hundreds linked arms to block access to the NYSE building, one man in a blue business suit wrestled with a protester in a cowboy hat, one of several violent scuffles on a day in which organisers vowed a show of force for a movement that has had recent setbacks.

Chanting “Wall Street’s closed!” “We are the 99 percent” and “Whose street? Our street!”, about 1,000 demonstrators engaged in a tense face-off with hundreds of police, including many on horseback outside the iconic exchange.