Information is still coming in at this point - see below for the latest updates:

Michael Bloomberg was set to appear at a $500 per ticket function put on by the Inner Circle.

(http://innercircleshow.org/infotickets.html)

Hilton New York 1335 Sixth Avenue between 53rd & 54th Streets New York NY 10003


Members of WeAreChangeNY News were assembled in the lobby area at the Hilton Hotel in order to ask Mayor Bloomberg some additional questions regarding the first responder issue which continues to be ignored. Requests to meet with our reporters have been repeatly denied by the Mayor's office. Reporters were stationed at various locations around the lobby and according to witnesses on the scene hotel security and members or Mayor Bloomberg's security detail began tracking and hovering around Luke and others with cameras who were waiting patiently for the Mayor's arrival. Members of both security staffs began to ask questions about who were guests at the hotel and who was press. Orders to "detain" people soon began so that those individuals could be banned from the building. All of the members of WeAreChange immediately complied with all instructions given by the security detail so that they could exit the building but within seconds arrest orders were given. According to WeAreChange camera operators there is video of these unlawful arrests as it appears that in some cases there were no warnings given and some people were simply arrested just for being in the lobby of the hotel.



Luke and the others have been taken to the NYPD 306 W 54 Street 8 Ave / 9 Ave