Earlier on Thursday, the Occupy Wall Street movement staged parallel rallies in Pennsylvania and New York City to protest the recent shipments of tear gas from a U.S. firm to the military government in Egypt. Egyptian forces have used U.S.-made tear gas in an attempt to break up the mass protests against military rule in Tahrir Square. In Pennsylvania, demonstrators rallied at the factory of the company Combined Systems, where the tear gas is produced. Protesters in New York City, meanwhile, rallied outside the Egyptian consulate.