Occupy Baltimore Draws Small Crowd

Occupy Baltimore drew about 40 protesters to McKeldin Fountain Square to rail against government corruption and greed in the financial industry, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

Occupy Baltimore is an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protest that started last month and resulted in hundreds of arrests recently.

“[President Barack] Obama, when he was rescuing the banks, met with the bankers and scolded them saying ‘I’m the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks right now,’” Mike McGuire, one of the organizers of the Occupy Baltimore event, told the newspaper. “These protests, in a lot of ways, are us saying we’re tuning our pitchforks.”

On Monday evening, Baltimore City police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said officers were taking precautions to make sure events didn’t get out of hand, but said they were expecting peaceful demonstrations.