Captured Cleveland

FINAL COUNTDOWN — Occupy Cleveland activist Peter Schanz leads fellow occupiers in a chant minutes before the City of Cleveland’s 5 p.m. deadline for occupiers to remove their long-standing tent on May 2, 2012. Occupy Cleveland’s permit, which allowed the group to maintain a tent on the corner of West Roadway and Frankfort Avenue, expired at midnight that day. Occupiers defied the order to take down the tent, causing authorities to remove the tent early the next morning. The Occupy Cleveland tent, erected on Oct. 6, 2011, had stood longer than any other tent in the nation’s Occupy movement. Photo by Brandon Blackwell @CapturedCLE

ANARCHIST — Self-proclaimed anarchist Brandon Baxter stands inside the Occupy Cleveland tent on March 21, 2012. Baxter was one of five fringe members of the Occupy Cleveland movement arrested on April 30 for attempting to bomb a Brecksville, Ohio, bridge. In March, Baxter complained of the Occupy Cleveland movement’s lack of initiative. “If people started to follow through with their plans, things would be better,” he said. Photo by Brandon Blackwell @CapturedCLE  

OCCUPIED — Occupy Cleveland organizer Brandon Baxter gets some shade in the Occupy Cleveland tent in downtown Cleveland on March 21, 2012.  Baxter, one of the few remaining members of Occupy Cleveland’s physical presence downtown, said the group has seen a sharp decline in numbers since last October because of increasing disorganization. “We need guidance,” he said.  Photo by Brandon Blackwell @CapturedCLE