The OccupyDC protest has cost Washington DC taxpayers $1 million over the last two months. The cost has been calculated to be about $22,000 per day. The city has paid for sanitation costs which have exceeded $6,000.
More than twenty local police officers are stationed around the clock at the site. That doesn’t include a three-hour standoff last Saturday night in which 13 protesters were arrested. Nor does the $1 million cover a U.S. Park Police sweep of the protest tents following a White House shooting by a disgruntled 21-year old from Idaho.
Finally, the tab also doesn’t count the destruction of the sod at McPherson Square where the protesters have encamped. Earlier this year $437,000 in federal stimulus money was spent to re-sod and “restore” the park which is part of the National Park Service. That money, it seems, was another stimulus project that went to waste.
And, of course, the cost also doesn’t include any lawsuit settlements to the two elderly women attending the AFP meeting who were shoved around and knocked down by the Occupiers, while the police response was ineffectual. If they haven’t already sued, they probably should (but please sue the Occupy scum as well, dears). Mayor Gray and the solidly (D) city clowncil have fawned over the Occupy scum from day one.
– we lost our brand-new bocce courts.
We Must Charge #Occupy Supporters and Organizers for the Costs of #Occupy!