The Occupy Wall Street protest camp in New York has been dismantled.
Riot police moved in overnight and arrested about 70 people. Tents and property were also removed.
About 200 people had been protesting against economic inequality since September but the city had come under pressure from residents and businesses to shut down the camp.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg says the situation had become intolerable.
"No right is absolute and with every right comes responsibility. The First Amendment gives every New Yorker the right to speak out but it does not give anyone the right to sleep in a park or otherwise take it over to the exclusion of others," he says.
Some of the protesters followed police orders during the raid, while others refused to go and were seen being bundled into trucks, the BBC reports.
Activist John Neffle says the police were aggressive.
"They started to push us off the sidewalk, they had their batons held parallel to the ground pushing us back. Shields were back, at this point there were several violent arrests," he says.
Some of the protesters chained themselves together as police moved into the camp.
Earlier, police in California closed down the Occupy Oakland camp across the bay from San Francisco.
Police in Switzerland have also cleared a similar camp in the centre of Zurich and London authorities say they will resume legal action against one outside St Paul's Cathedral.
