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Daily Mail:
It started as a gathering of furious youngsters, protesting about the supposed lack of opportunities for the average American. But then the freeloaders came along.

As the Occupy Wall Street protest continued in full strength in Manhattan this weekend, the atmosphere in New York’s financial district became increasingly debauched.

Meanwhile the protests against the state of the U.S. political and economic systems have now spread to more than 25 cities – from Sacramento to Seattle, Anchorage to Atlanta and Mobile to Minneapolis.

Conspicuously living among the politically active in the makeshift village in Zuccotti Park are opportunistic junkies and homeless people – making the most of the free food on offer.

Also present and infuriating the hard core of activists are a number of teens looking to turn the gathering into an urban rave.

Among the banners and flags are now discarded packets of condoms, cigarettes and bottles of spirits, while naked youngsters happily get together with just sleeping bags covering their modesty.

A box of free condoms is kept in the main area where protesters are camping. In one shocking picture, a man can be seen defecating on a police car.

‘I got warrants. I’m running from the law,’ a 24-year-old man from Stamford, Connecticut, told the New York Post. ‘I’m not even supposed to be here, but it’s as good a spot as any to hide.’

Protesters said the site smells like a sewer and the free condoms have given visions of what the Woodstock festival was like. But many have come down for the huge amount of food donated.

Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America this weekend. The Occupy Wall Street movement, that began in New York last month with a few people, has swelled.

Those who are there for political reasons, have raged against corporate greed and influence over American life, the gap between rich and poor, and hapless, corrupt politicians.
Among the activists, however, clearly there are some on the ground with less noble intentions.

‘Most of the kids are trust-fund babies. They don’t need to be here,’ Andre, a 40-year-old activist told the New York Post.

‘I’ve seen some making out, having sex. It doesn’t look good.’

More than 400 people reportedly converged on the tent city on Friday night, with many sleeping with each other.
One pictures shows two young people lying together with very little clothing on under a sheet.
Above them is the book The Yage Letters, a collection of writings from the fifties and sixties detailing the search for a hallucinogenic plant in the Amazon rainforest.

On Saturday morning a 23-year-old man named Zachary was rushed to hospital after drinking a combination of liquor and cough syrup.
He stopped breathing and was rushed in a serious condition to Downtown Hospital.

The leaders of the protest are furious at the manner in which it has been hijacked and have set up a make-shift internal police to stop the debauched behaviour.

‘We want to make sure everyone is here for the right reason,’ Ricky Torres, 23, who is part of the security unit, told the New York Post.

At the protesters’ base, exclusive pictures obtained by MailOnline show one demonstrator relieving himself on a police car.
Elsewhere we found piles of stinking refuse clogging Zuccotti Park and the stench of marijuana, despite the best efforts of many of the protesters to keep the area clean.
The shocking images demonstrate the extent to which conditions have deteriorated as demonstrations in downtown Manhattan enter their fourth week.

Further pictures seen by MailOnline have been censored, as we deemed them too graphic to show.
According to eye witnesses, when people ran to tell nearby police about the man defecating on the squad car they were ignored.

Standing downwind of the piles of rubbish, bankers walking past the man did a double take before hurrying away.

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‘Some are homeless and people who are not really up to any good.’

He added: ‘If we see someone doing something we think the cops are not going to be down with, we take it upon ourselves to stop it.

We make sure everybody’s doing the right thing — to be peaceful and not upset the cops because they’re here to protect us.’

Brookfield Office Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park, the site of the New York demonstration, have already railed against protesters, who they claim are creating sanitation problems.

‘Sanitation is a growing concern,’ Brookfield said in a statement.

‘Normally the park is cleaned and inspected every week night. . . because the protesters refuse to cooperate. . .the park has not been cleaned since Friday, September 16th and as a result, sanitary conditions have reached unacceptable levels,’ CBS News reported.

Although many of the protesters are understood to be making strenuous efforts to clean up after themselves, after three weeks of occupation, the strain of hundreds of people living on the street has begun to take its toll.

Authorities warned of a dramatic crackdown on Wall Street demonstrators, as the protests spread across America.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has promised that if protesters targeted the police, authorities will respond with ‘force.’
Kelly blamed activists for starting the skirmishes with police that led to 28 arrests yesterday.

Most were arrested for disorderly behaviour, according to reports.
‘They’re going to be met with force when they do that — this is just common sense,’ Kelly said.
‘These people wanted to have confrontation with the police for whatever reason. Somehow, I guess it works to their purposes.’

Mayor Bloomberg added his voice to the furore, accusing the Wall Street demonstrators of putting the city’s economy at risk, the New York Post reported.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg attacked protesters today, saying the demonstrations were harming the city.

He said: ‘What they’re trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city.

‘They’re trying to take away the tax base we have because none of this is good for tourism.’

‘If the jobs they are trying to get rid of in this city — the people that work in finance, which is a big part of our economy– we’re not going to have any money to pay our municipal employees or clean the blocks or anything else.’

Hundreds of people have been arrested in New York since the protests began last month. On Wednesday, the biggest crowd so far of about 5,000 people marched on New York’s financial district, and police used pepper spray on some protesters. But protests for the most part have been non-violent.