They’re filming an episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” with an Occupy Wall Street plot point at Foley Square. So actual OWS protestors, irritated at being turned into bad television, moved in to occupy the film set, calling it Mockupy Wall Street. No spice.

The protest took place most of last night and early into Friday morning – at about 01h00 the NYPD showed up to start clearing the area of protestors and the film crew; this led to the chant ‘”NYPD does not respect Law And Order,” because, ha, yes, you’re all very clever.

Said Han Shan of the OWS press team:

People did it in the spirit of absurdity and fun, and we like to come together in public space and share ideas and show our vision through our action and we’re doing that tonight with a good bit of jest and big fat smiles on our faces.

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There’s a pretty NYPD presence at this point … I don’t anyone wanted to take an arrest for this. It’s fun and we were successful in kind of taking back our history, our very young history but taking it back from this TV show that wanted to use it

Occupy your weekend.

[Source: MotherJones]