Rose Bowl parade gets occupied
— The 2012 contest of Roses brought its fancy floats and strutting bands to a worldwide audience Monday under obvious blue skies, and in the sphere of its wake came a scruffier parade — hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters. The 123rd twelve-monthly extra Years daytime event, with the theme absolutely Imagine, flowed along downtown Pasadena to the cheers of hundreds of thousands of sidewalk spectators. An estimated 40 million fill viewed this years procession of 44 floats, 16 marching bands and 22 equestrian troupes on U.S. television. here were 10 arrests overnight, as well as four felonies, to the same extent thousands of spectators staked outdated viewing sitting room along the route but with the purpose of outline was down from the prior time, law enforcement whispered.