Tuesday, October 3rd
8:50pm EDT - The crowd is pushing through fences and a line of riot police has formed at the far end of protest pen but people are rapidly pushing them back as the direct action prepares to deploy.
8:46pm EDT - More mounted officers are being brought in and it is believed that a riot squad is around the corner.
8:46pm EDT - Much of the crowd has crossed the water area and many people are pushing forward toward the fences of the UMass Boston campus.
8:44pm EDT - The Black Bloc has got the crowd going and they are beginning to challenging the fence. The police are respond with batons, clubbing anyone who crosses the fence. The police are about ten feet back from the fence and taunting the activists by waving batons and clenching fists.
8:38pm EDT - It is reported that the police have begun attacking activists by reaching over the barricades.
8:35pm EDT - Ralph Nader is reported to have said "I was excluded on political grounds."
8:35pm EDT - Ralph Nader is reported to have said "I was excluded on political grounds."
8:33pm EDT - It is reported that between 500 and 800 more people just arrived at the demonstration to gain access to the presidential debates being held on the UMass Boston campus. This new group is reported to be loud and active.
8:24pm EDT - It was reported that eight police transport units are line up along Morrissey Blvd., just outside of the growing demonstration that is surging foward in an attempt to enter the UMass Boston campus.
8:23pm EDT - It was reported that Nader was denied entrance to the presidential debates after the Committee on Presidential Debates boarded his bus and took his ticket. The crowd is now surging foward and chanting "Let Ralph in!"