Rose Bowl parade gets occupied
Control did not issue an legitimate count but Occupy the Rose Parade organizer Pete Thottam estimated the crowd of protesters on 5,000. keep watch over, parade and city officials held numerous meetings with the objection organizers to ensure with the purpose of they did not disrupt the parade. discriminating security is nothing novel to the parade, which took place on Jan. 2 this day since further Years time spray on a Sunday. keep watch over furthermore stepped up measures taking into consideration 9/11 and the Y2K risk, and give rise to recurrently dealt with protests through the years ranging from anti-Vietnam war demonstrators to Native Americans incensed by the side of the preference of a descendant of Christopher Columbus having the status of great marshal. This years parade featured Iraq war veteran J.