It seems Mayor Bloomberg still gets a bit pissy if you question him about his perfect handling of Occupy Wall Street : during his weekly radio appearance this morning, Bloomberg was asked about the November raid on Zuccotti Park , during which several reporters were arrested and others were forcibly removed from the park. Bloomberg insisted that there was no media blackout during the early morning raid: “We didn’t keep anybody from reporting, you just had to stand to the side. You don’t have a right as a press person to stand in the way just in the interest of getting the story…the police [showed] amazing restraint. This is the greatest police department in the world. The number of times police fire their weapons here is so much less than any other police department.” [ more › ]

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Bloomberg Claims NYPD Didn’t Prevent Press From Reporting On Occupy Wall Street Raid