Another wild night in New York City at the Occupy Wall Street protests. Here you can see footage of a Senior NYPD officer beating back the crowd tonight at the rally in downtown Manhattan tonight with his nightstick. Courtesy of Max Read at Gawker:

“This is the scene at Occupy Wall Street Wednesday tonight, where a few hundred protesters continued the day’s even larger demonstration with another march on Wall Street. Last time we checked in, a tense standoff had emerged between cops—at least one of whom was looking forward to using his nightstick—and protesters, who’d been contained and blocked from the street with that ubiquitous orange netting and the old-school metal barriers.” More here…