Arrests Made as Protesters Mark Occupy Wall Street's Six-Month Anniversary As hundreds of people gathered in the financial district on Saturday to mark the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, protesters embarked upon a winding march and police officers made about a dozen arrests near Zuccotti Park. At the beginning of the afternoon, as protesters gathered under blue skies while carrying banners and signs, the day was in some ways reminiscent of the first time the Occupy protesters gathered in mid-September. Just after 1 p.m., brandishing placards with messages like "Take back government from corporations," the crowd left Zuccotti Park headed south on Broadway, chanting the now familiar slogan: "We are the 99 percent." When the first protesters set foot in the financial district six months ago, few people imagined what would follow, including a two-month encampment in Lower Manhattan, similar camps in cities across the country and critiques of corporate greed becoming part of the national dialogue. The movement was mainly quiet during the winter, but organizers said they were aiming for a springtime resurgence. "It's just a reminder that we're here," Brendan Burke said, as the crowd marched past the New York Stock Exchange. It's an opportunity to remind Wall Street that we aren't going anywhere. In several respects, the march on Saturday was similar to the inaugural one. The crowd was on the small side but spirited and marched past the bronze sculpture of a bull at Bowling Green, which had served as a mustering spot for the first march. The marchers were accompanied by police officers on foot and on scooters who at one point blocked access to Wall Street, just as they did on Sept. And, as they did that day, the marchers made sudden turns that appeared to surprise the police and walked along Wall Street for at least a brief time. At one point, several demonstrators stood on the steep steps of Federal Hall and chanted: "1-2-3-4, I declare class war." Later, members of the group ignored directives from the police to remain on sidewalks and flowed onto parts of Exchange Place and Beaver Street. Later, on Broad Street, a deputy inspector turned to a sergeant and said: "We got to start collaring some." For the next 30 minutes or so, things remained calm as marchers stuck to the sidewalks and entered Zuccotti Park. But then, just after 2 p.m., police officers began telling a large group of protesters that they could not stand on the sidewalk on a stretch of Liberty Street. Officers pushed the crowd until more than 100 protesters on the sidewalk were pressed against a wall that borders the park. Then the police began grabbing and arresting people, taking into custody at least half a dozen. Officers surged into the crowd, dragging protesters toward the street, as people yelled objections. "They were grabbing people randomly," Zachary Kamel said, adding that his girlfriend, Lauren DiGoia, had been arrested while dancing on the sidewalk. One sergeant grabbed a woman wearing a green shirt by the bottom of her throat and shoved her head against the hood of a car. A moment later, another officer approached and forcefully pressed her head against the car before placing her into the back of a police truck. Over the next few hours, protesters conducted meetings inside Zuccotti Park and held a dance party fueled by a saxophone and a battery of drums. Sporadic moments of tension also arose. At one point, the police arrested a handful of protesters on Cedar Street near Trinity Place. A few moments later, near Cedar Street and Broadway, a police captain pushed a man by the shoulders for almost a block, then released him when a crowd loudly demanded to know whether the man was under arrest. The man, Charlie Gonzalez, 31, said that the captain had told him he was not permitted to stand on the sidewalk. About an hour later, the same captain pushed another man several hundred feet east down Cedar Street, about a block from Zuccotti Park, and briefly detained him there. That man, Yoni Miller, 19, said he was counting officers standing in rows near Broadway when the captain forced him to walk around a corner onto Cedar Street then asked him if he was a terrorist or was planning any crimes. Paul Moore, 25, said that he followed and was videotaping the encounter when the captain asked him for identification and began pushing him away, telling him he was not permitted to document what was happening.