Violations of the Spokane Municipal Code led to the removal of several tent shelters Friday morning. Protesters behind Occupy Spokane were notified on Thursday of their violation and asked to pack it up by 6 a.m. the next morning. By that time, they were still out there with their tents with more than a dozen huddled together during the cool early morning weather.

Their tent shelters fell under “unlawful construction or occupation of transient shelters.” The code says that transient shelters may not be constructed or occupied in any street, park or publicly owned and/or maintained area, improved or unimproved.

It always surprises me when I find out who came out of Spokane. Craig T. Nelson, a Spokane-born actor, was recently featured in a Spokane Public School's "Great Grads" video. This is their second year interviewing graduates from their schools and this year they're kicking off with Nelson. He went to school at Wilson Elementary and Lewis and Clark High School. It's unknown what graduate class he belonged to. 

It's a small start to a national effort to bring awareness to what they're saying is a world-wide crisis. Occupy Spokane is reigning in their thoughts to show that the nation's issues affects them too.

It started in New York as Occupy Wall Street. Photographs and videos from the riots show massive crowds of people with lines of police officers depicting unrest and brutality. In some incidents, pepper spray was involved, but that is still being investigated.