Across the bay at the University of California at Berkeley, protesters pitched tents on campus, despite a warning from university officials.

On Tuesday night, thousands of people showed up at the university’s Sproul Plaza to vote on whether to erect tents and to listen to a speech by Robert Reich, a public policy professor at Berkeley who was secretary of labor in the Clinton administration.

Campus police had not removed the tents by Wednesday morning, according to The Associated Press. A previous attempt to put up tents on campus last week was thwarted by the police, who were accused by protesters of using unnecessary force.

In Seattle, several protesters were hit with pepper spray by the police on Tuesday night, including a woman who told officers she was three months pregnant, according to the Seattle police. “Pepper spray was deployed only against subjects who were either refusing a lawful order to disperse or engaging in assaultive behavior toward officers,” the police said in a statement. The police said they made six arrests, including a 17-year-old girl who swung a stick at an officer but missed.

Protesters around the nation have said the break up of Occupy Wall Street by New York police on Tuesday would have little impact on their own demonstrations.

At several encampments, demonstrators who had watched the nighttime police raid in New York via live video streamed on the Internet and over Twitter and Facebook, said that while the Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park had been their model and given them inspiration, they had no intention of halting their own demonstrations in response.

“I obviously think this is pretty devastating,” said Becca Chavez, 29, who has participated in Occupy Denver, which itself has had a series of run-ins with the police in recent weeks, leading to dozens of arrests. “It was hard to watch. I think because New York was a symbol for so much, if anything, this will get people involved. What they had set up in Zuccotti Park was a community. They really know what they were doing. I think this will really pull a lot of people in who would have not otherwise thought of getting involved.”