ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Story: Police removed bedding and some tents on Saturday at an "Occupy" protest site just blocks from the White House, enforcing a no-camping rule at a public square that has housed protesters for months.<br/> <br />Dozens of officers sealed off McPherson Square and moved in before dawn to enforce the no-camping regulation. Demonstrators<br/> <br />have been in the square since early October to target the growing income gap, corporate greed and what they see as an unfair tax structure favoring the richest Americans.<br/> <br />The National Park Service had repeatedly warned protesters that it would start enforcing a ban against camping in McPherson Square<br/> <br />and at Freedom Plaza, both a few blocks from the White House.<br/> <br />Demonstrations in the U.S. capital have survived an unusually warm winter and a permissive approach by federal authorities reluctant to provoke confrontation.<br/> <br />But the site has drawn increasing complaints from members of Congress and city officials because of squalor and rats. The<br/> <br />protest site also had drawn numbers of homeless people.
