Today's Occupy headlines include one from the Washington Times that implies a nationwide crackdown, and the Boston Herald's, Police arrest 100 in Occupy Boston sweep, claims that arrests were limited to a piggyback protest by anarchists. What is clear is that while the original Occupy group was successfully occupying the old Dewey Square, additional protestors were trying to occupy other parts of the Rose Kennedy Greenway:

[Boston Police Commissioner Edward] Davis acknowledged that the arrests marked a shift in the once harmonious relations between the group and the police.

“The group that was here for the first ten days was working very closely with us,” Davis said, “but they warned us yesterday morning that a new group, the anarchists, wanted to take control.”

By nightfall, at least 40 tents had been pitched on this second site, which is just north of the group’s original occupation site.

Boston police and Mayor Thomas M. Menino asked the leaderless group, which is rallying for a more equitable tax structure in the U.S., to leave that second site by midnight.

Police said the park’s patrons had just spent $150,000 to spruce it up.

Protesters refused to move.

As midnight came and went, the 300 occupied stayed there, chanting, singing and delighting in their staying power.

“Mayor Menino told us to leave by midnight,” one of the occupiers shouted as the rest of the group cheered. “It’s 1 a.m, and we’re still here.”

A wave of police arrived on site just after 1:30 a.m.

Update 2: WHDH has a video up with Commish Davis claiming, "We had a great relationship for about ten days but this last 24 hours have been tough,” Commissioner Ed Davis said. “A group of anarchists have started to run the agenda and they weren’t listening to us or working with us.”
 

But in, Boston Beatdown: Police rough up Veterans for Peace, arrest 100 in retaking second #OccupyBoston location the Phoenix makes no distinction between the two camps, and has Davis trying to mend fences with the movement:

As the cops moved in, Chief Davis was on the scene, and he briefly spoke to reporters afterwards, telling them that the police would have a long-term relationship with the Dewey Square encampment, and acknowledging the national movement of which it is a part. Throughout the evening, Superintendent in Chief Daniel Linskey could be seen giving orders. Around 11 pm, Linskey arrived at the new encampment and began passing out leaflets apprising the protestors of their rights. A legal advisor for the Occupiers refused to receive it, but many copies were handed off to individual occupiers. In an impromptu interview, Linskey told reporters that there was no midnight deadline for the Occupiers to leave the site, and that the Globe's reporting of such a deadline was inaccurate. He was clear that the protestors needed to move, but suggested that the timeline might be days as opposed to hours. Of course, by then he knew quite well when his men would be moving.

The Crimson's, Boston Police Arrest 100 Protesters in Dewey Square puts the arrests back in the original Occupy Boston site, then clarifies that it was a northern part of Dewey Square (which actually seems to outside the traditional square):

Boston Police arrested about 100 protesters affiliated with the Occupy Boston movement in a swift raid on Dewey Square in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

The arrests were the culmination of a standoff between protesters and police after a weeklong protest in downtown Boston expanded into the northern part of Dewey Square. The protesters have permission to occupy the southern portion, but when they expanded into the northern part on Monday, Boston police decided to take action.

On Monday, the Boston Police Department released a statement saying that it respects the right to protest peacefully, but statements by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino on Sunday, just a day before, indicated that the occupation would soon be required to disband.

As of Monday, a second tent city emerged in a northern part of Dewey Square, and this new camp reportedly drew the attention of city officials for lacking necessary permits. It was this camp that was the site of Tuesday morning’s arrests.

Update 1: There are more pictures at Occupy Boston and Occupy Boston Globe:

Occupy Boston has not mentioned that separate group of anarchists per the Herald quote of Commish Davis, but they are complaining that the police dispatcher denied that the police were moving on the protestors. Not sure why they'd expect the police to tip them off on their own raid.

Update 3: In the Boston Globe, a legal observer questions the need for force:

According to the National Lawyers Guild, 65 men and 35 women were arrested and then were booked at stations in the South End, Mattapan and Brighton.

The men were held in custody or ordered to appear in court today. All of the women were released by police and are due in court Wednesday and Thursday, said Urszula Masny-Latos, executive director of the Guild, a national non-profit that often represents people engaged in civil disobedience.

Masny-Latos, who was on scene as a legal observer, said no protesters fought with police. She said police could have employed a technique routinely used at other protests – police approach a protester, tell them they are violating the law, and the protester then submits to being taken into custody – and still achieved their goal of clearing the area.

“They really attacked,’’ Masny-Latos said of the police. “They used force that was completely unnecessary. … It was just brutal. I have no idea why they arrested us with u such force.’’

To her shock, Masny-Latos herself was among those arrested. She said Boston police usually respect the legal observers the guild routinely dispatches to public protests.

However, even though she was wearing a green hat with the words, “legal observer’’ clearly visible, Masny-Latos said, she was the second person arrested by police.

“It was very surprising,’’ she said of being arrested. “Boston police usually respect our legal observers. And they usually leave us alone… I was legal observing. I wasn’t even chanting anything.’’

Masny-Latos added, “They know what role we play. This is the first time’’ in some 15 years that a Guild legal observer was arrested in Boston, she said.

“Four officers grabbed me and dragged me,’’ she said. “I begged them to stop, [told them that that] they were hurting me. I have no idea why they arrested us with such force.’’