santa cruz police clad in riot gear responded to river street last night to remove “occupy santa cruz” protestors that had taken over vacant building on river street last night. demonstrators made entry into the former “coast commercial bank” building late in the AFTERNOON and hung a banner from the roof that read “occupy everything”. just after 6 p.m., about 30 officers responded to remove the protestors, but eventually left because the situation was determined to be unsafe. demonstrators are still occupying the building, the owner of the property has said that he wants the police to remove the protestors for trespassing.
