Occupy Wall Street protest underway at Gaslight Park in Tampa

The Occupy Wall Street movement is staging a  protest in Tampa's Gaslight Park.

The protest got underway around 9 a.m. in Lykes Gaslight Park on Franklin Street and is scheduled to last until 5 p.m.  At last word, about 100 protesters had gathered.

According to the Occupy Tampa Web site, Occupy Wall Street is a "leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions."

The group says they are using the "revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants."

Tampa Police have said they are not overly concerned about the protest, despite a YouTube video that has threatened the department's computer systems.

"We're not in the business of arresting protestors. We're in the business of arresting lawbreakers. If somebody breaks the law, yes they'll go to jail. We don't expect that to happen," said Tampa Police spokesperson, Laura McElroy.

A masked man claiming to be with "Anonymous," a group of so-called "hacktivists" that cyber-attacked Sony, Bank of America and other major companies made a YouTube video threatening to "wipe Tampa off the internet" if local police harmed the protestors.

Occupy Tampa claims to have had nothing to do with the video threat.  The group also plans to march with St. Pete for Peace at 4:30 p.m.