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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has left US police and politicians baffled as they do not know what to do with expanding anti-corporatism protests, a political analyst tells Press TV’s US Desk.

“The police have overplayed their hands in New York a couple of times” and resorted to “excessive force” from time to time, said David Rosen, an American author and critic, indicating that the US government has been left bewildered by the massive movement.

The OWS was initiated on September 17, when a group of people began rallying in New York’s financial district to protest “corporate greed” and top-level corruption in the United States. The campaign has now spread to nearly 70 cities, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Boston, as well as hundreds of communities across the nation.

Pointing to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been trying to thwart the movement, Rosen noted that he “does not believe in popular democracy.”

Bloomberg is, however, “very afraid to do something very extreme in trying to sort of stop the movement,” the American culture and media critic added.

During Saturday clashes between anti-Wall Street protesters and riot police in New York’s Times Square, 70 protesters were arrested and one injured.

Meanwhile, according to a Press TV survey published yesterday, many believe that the American awakening — represented by the OWS movement across the US — stems from misguided financial policies of the American establishment, thought to be behind the country’s economic crisis.

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