OCCUPY: Attendance appears overstated

I read an article in the Sunday paper written by Bill Buley about the people participating in the "Occupy" movement. Mr. Buley said their were hundreds of people there to protest. I did not participate in the rally but I did go down there to see what was happening. I went down around 12:30 in the afternoon and counted maybe 10 or 12 people with three people across the street. I went back down around 4:30, a few more joined and the people across the street were not there. I saw on KREM 2 News last night and they said only 24 people were allowed because they did not have a permit. If there were other protests in the area I don't know, only Highway 95 and Appleway was advertised. The group that Mr. Buley was writing about was far less than the hundreds he said that was in his article.

LEONARD VEIT

Coeur d'Alene

Editor's note: As The Press story indicated, Occupy Coeur d'Alene ran in two-hour shifts for 12 hours, with about 25 protesters per shift.