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christmas tree growing industry is coming under fire. good evening. i m elizabeth cook. i m allen martin. it has the potential for a real mess, the combination of holiday shoppers, occupy protesters and critical mass converging in the same place at the same time. but even though protesters blocked some streets things stayed relatively calm. don knapp is in union square on the elements for the perfect storm. reporter: that s right, liz. merchants and shoppers may have worried somewhat about the occupy protests here in downtown san francisco, but it turns out they need not have. it seems when the police blocked off the streets and the shoppers were in the streets walking with the protesters, they were ignoring them and everybody was in a pretty good mood. union square was already near gridlock with black friday shoppers when a relatively small group of occupy protesters brought things to a halt. moving from intersection to intersection and blocking them. police barricades
[audience cheering] [captioning made possible by disney-abc domestic television] [captioned by national captioning institute, inc.] police and occupy protesters face-off in union square jammed with holiday shoppers. the mission of the protesters are to stop people from shopping on this black friday. good evening everyone. i m carolyn johnson. dan ashley has the night off. the confrontation was tense at times. demonstrators faced off with shoppers and they even blocked market street as you can see here. they got in the middle of the street and prevented cars from turning. no accidents happened and no arrests were made either. abc7 is in union square with us for more on all of this. a lot of occupiers a lot of people are out here tonight. occupy oakland and san francisco together in union square as shoppers take in black friday festivities. for occupy yes sirs it means occupying stores like macy s and sacks fifth avenue where they didn t always get a warm welcome. but polic