Crime & Safety

POLICE: Three Arrested During Occupy March After Bursting into Burger King

Three men were charged with disorderly conduct after allegdly making a scene.

Police arrested three masked men who ran into Burger King and caused a destruptive scene during an Occupy Boston march Sunday night. 

Jeffrey Nunes, 17, of Malden; Kiearn Lyons, 17, of Norwood and Sean Cormier, 21, of Westport, were arrested at 5:15 p.m. after police saw them separate from the main group at Newbury Street, and sprint down the sidewalk toward Clarendon.

"These three individuals were dressed in dark clothing, and appeared to be wearing facemasks," according to the report. "Officers also observed one of these individuals to be carrying a long solid object wrapped in a white sheet."

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Officers followed them on bikes as they "burst through the front door" of a packed Burger King at 551 Boylston Street.

"Restaurant employees and customers appeared to cower in fear and had a look of shock and disbelief on their faces at such a commotion," officers wrote in the report.

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Police questioned them, and they began to "chant" and "made statements alleging 'police brutality' and 'this is how people are treated in a police state,'" the report said.

They were also carrying a three-foot piece of wood wrapped in white bed sheets that were crafted into homemade signs that read "Fight For Your Rights" and "Capitalism is the Crisis, Steal Everything."

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