A woman holds a placard equating Wall Street with greed as a small group of protesters march past banks in downtown Los Angeles on October 19, 2011. Calling themselves members of the 99 percent and demanding a world that works through democracy and not corporatocracy, the demonstrators have been camped out in front of their base at City Hall in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, as a symbolic gesture of discontent over the current economic and political climate. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) (Credit: Left: Allan Tannenbaum-Pool/Getty Images Right: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — There could be a showdown this weekend between Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration and Occupy demonstrators camped in an Albany park.
Some of the protesters in the city’s Academy Park say they may challenge Cuomo’s promise to have troopers arrest anyone who violates an 11 p.m. curfew in the adjacent, state-owned Lafayette Park.
City officials have allowed the round-the-clock protest and Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares has said he won’t prosecute “peaceful protesters” for curfew violations.
But Cuomo has insisted they stay off the state land next to the Capitol building after hours.
Protesters said Friday they might to test that ban Saturday night.
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