Slideshow: Occupy Wall Street the Day After Eviction
Photographer Jeff Pappas sends us these photos from a Burger King near Z Park the day after the NYPD trashed the encampment.
Photographer Jeff Pappas sends us these photos from a Burger King near Z Park the day after NYPD trashed the encampment. As his images show, the occupiers were let back in, but they now have to share the space with new tenants.
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