MOVEALONG PROTEST WINDOWS

Police eventually ordered them to move along and began taking some into custody. Many people remained on the streets after the curfew hour. Thousands of protesters marched Tuesday night in a string of demonstrations across Manhattan and Brooklyn after merchants boarded up their businesses, fearing a repeat of the night before. “We’re going to have a tough few days,” he warned, but added: “We’re going to beat it back.” He pleaded with community leaders to step forward and “create peace.” Police made nearly 700 arrests and Mayor Bill de Blasio extended an 8 p.m.

MOVEALONG PROTEST WINDOWS

Macy’s flagship store was among those hit when crowds of people smashed windows and looted stores as they swept through the area. In New York, midtown Manhattan was pocked with battered storefronts after Monday’s protests.

“And we’re going to do it the right way.” “God as my witness, change is coming,” Art Acevedo said. Paul, Minnesota, Columbia, South Carolina, and Houston, where the police chief talked to peaceful demonstrators, vowing reforms. Protests ranged across the U.S., including in Los Angeles, Miami, St. On Tuesday, pastors at the church prayed with demonstrators and handed out water bottles. On Monday, law enforcement officers on foot and horseback aggressively drove protesters away from Lafayette Park, clearing the way for President Donald Trump to do a photo op at nearby St. At one point, the crowd booed when a protester climbed a light post and took down a street sign. The crowd Tuesday was peaceful, even polite. But the protest lacked the tension of the previous nights’ demonstrations. curfew passed, defying warnings that the response from law enforcement could be even more forceful. The crowd remained in place after the city’s 7 p.m. “Being here is better than being at home feeling helpless.” “Last night pushed me way over the edge,” said Jessica DeMaio, 40, of Washington, who attended a Floyd protest Tuesday for the first time. The fence was put up overnight to block access to Lafayette Park, just across the street from the White House. “I’m not doing anything illegal.One day after a crackdown on peaceful protesters near the White House, thousands of demonstrators massed a block away from the presidential mansion, facing law enforcement personnel standing behind a black chain-link fence. “Cops move us from spot to spot every thirty or forty-five minutes,” says PTH member Chyna Burke. PLEASE JOIN US ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2ND, at 11AM for a protest of the NYPD’s widespread, illegal practice of telling people perceived as homeless to “move along,” as if police and any other city employees should be assuming people’s housing status based on their appearance or that losing your home or being perceived as homeless means you lose the right to occupy public space. People living on the street receive numerous orders in the course of a single day, and are herded from block to block for no apparent reason. That’s a daily reality for homeless New Yorkers. We all make use of its sidewalks, corners, benches, beaches, and parks.īut what if you couldn’t? What if you were standing on a corner talking to your friend, not breaking any laws and not bothering anyone, and a police officer came and told you to “move along”? And if you pointed out that the order was unlawful, they threatened to seize and destroy your belongings, or take you to a psychiatric center against your will? New York City’s streets belong to all of us.

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