Dale Farm residents, who had been told to remove the barricades to the site, have also complied with the court.
On Saturday, the government ordered its forces to remove the barricades that the remaining Uzbeks had built around themselves, saying it would not allow "zones where the government does not have power," as the mayor of Osh put it.
A leader of the ethnic Uzbeks, Jalal Salakhutdinov, said that he had been negotiating with officials and warned them about the potential for violence if they tried to remove the barricades.
The officials expressed sympathy with the message of the protesters, but said they had created "serious quality-of-life concerns" for residents and asked that the city remove the barricades and enforce laws prohibiting excessive noise and public urination.
But they did not remove the barricades, which would have allowed the crowd to spread out more and also would have allowed people to flow in from surrounding streets to join the protest.
Then, when riot police attempted to remove the barricades surrounding Independence Square in a night-time charge, protesters handed back helmets and shields to officers who got stranded in the crush and sent them on their way.
That can only happen once Israel agrees to remove the barricades that seal off West Bank communities from each other and feels secure enough to ease the passage of goods through border crossing points.
The decision to remove the barricades, followed by the quick reversal, was emblematic of the quandary that has vexed Mr. Bloomberg and his administration since a few hundred people critical of the nation's economic inequities first bedded down in Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17.
I got my first glimpse of the barricades in Los Palos Grandes, an upper-income area where the protesters do have popular support, and neighbors will yell at anyone trying to remove the barricades – which is a risky thing to attempt (at least four people have apparently been shot dead for doing so).
The publishing industry can remove the barricades, or see their house implode.
Police spokesman Paul Browne told the Associated Press that the decision to remove the barricades was made before the complaint was filed, because officials no longer felt they were necessary.
