Occupy protesters drum at NY mayor's home

A few dozen protesters from Occupy Wall Street banged their drums outside the residence of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday to protest the removal of an encampment in lower Manhattan.

Police cordoned off the street near Central Park, so protesters gathered on the edge of the park, beating on drums, buckets and pans.

"He paid us a visit, now we are paying him a visit," said demonstrator Aaron Black, in reference to the November 15 night raid evicting the camping protesters from Zuccotti Park, the birthplace of the Occupy movement.

Some of the New York protesters also carried signs denouncing the use of pepper spray on demonstrators in California, an incident which prompted numerous comments after video was circulated on the Internet.

After a police raid dismantled their New York camp in Zuccotti Park on Tuesday, the Occupy movement, which is protesting corporate greed and income inequality, said its new slogan was "You can't evict an idea whose time has come."

OWS said 32,500 gathered last week to mark the anti-capitalist movement's two-month anniversary at Foley Square in lower Manhattan before many marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.

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