Occupy Nashville Group To Break Camp
Tennessee Safety Commissioner Bill Gibbons said Occupy Nashville protesters plan to leave the Capitol complex after spending more than five months encamped there.
Gibbons told The Associated Press that the protesters informed a state trooper patrolling the area that they plan to leave sometime Tuesday night. The protesters had said they were going to make a decision at a general assembly meeting Tuesday evening.
Protesters have camped at the plaza since early October. Later that month state troopers arrested protesters, but a Nashville judge ordered them released. The protesters reoccupied soon after with as many as 60 tents on the plaza.
The decision to move comes a couple of days before legislation is scheduled to be heard on the House floor that aims to stop protesters from staying overnight on the plaza.
