MYFOXNY.COM - While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests on Wednesday night, Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by  pepper spray from a police officer and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan was hit by an officer's baton.

The protests on Wall Street continued to grow all day. The rallies and their participants are showing no signs of slowing down.

In the evening, crowds surged past barriers and NYPD officers moved in to contain the protesters. By many accounts, mayhem broke out.

Officers, many wearing white shirts indicating supervisor rank, swatted protesters with batons and sprayed them with mace, video from the scene showed.

Fox 5's Isen and Brennan were there and witnessed the chaos. At one point, Brennan was hit in the abdomen by a police baton and Isen got irritant in his eyes. Both journalists were all right and continued to cover the protests and arrests.

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Early Thursday, the NYPD issued a statement.

"Dick Brennan with his cameraman Roy Isen were in the midst of the action last night to report on it, when they were inadvertently struck by police as a group charged a police line at Broadway and Wall Street," said Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, the department's chief spokesperson. "There were a total of 27 arrests, mainly for disorderly conduct by protesters in lower Manhattan yesterday, including nine at 7:50 p.m at Broadway and Wall Street. The nine were among the group which charged a police line there. Charges included inciting to riot for one individual and disorderly conduct for the eight others."

Browne also said that police arrested four other protesters in a "roving group" at State and Bridge streets at 930 p.m., including one for assault on a police officer after he knocked a police officer off his scooter.

During the day, unions and students joined the demonstrators. What was once a protest of powerful Wall Street financial firms and banks is growing into a larger movement about the working class, employment, poverty, education, and more.