NYC protest get violent (Floyd, Alexander: how much, to live, bus)
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Protesters chanted for a relatively-peaceful hour before NYPD officers clashed with the crowd.
A cloud of pepper spray descended over the rally, police armed with batons violently took down protesters and some rally goers set fires — all scenes that played out in real time on social media.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters descended on Atlantic Avenue entrance to the Barclays Center. They chanted "George Floyd" in addition to cries of "Hands up! Don't shoot!" and "Black Lives Matter."
It was part of a growing wave of protests over the killing of George Floyd on Monday.
Like it or hate it the following is only my opinion:
It is sad that a man died while being arrested. It is murder that a police officer could have controlled the outcome. It is criminal that people are pillaging and looting in the streets. It is unforgivable that politics have entered into this sensitive topic
in an attempt to turn it into a powder keg. The left has used this
tactic for years. ( Do your research ). The media will be splashing
every T.V. set until November with Blacks being victimized only
by whites while minimal reporting on white on white crime, minimal
reporting on black on white crime, black on black, brown on black,
yellow on black,black on yellow, yellow on white,white on yellow,
yellow on brown or brown or yellow. Anything to get that orange
haired white man out of office.
Question everything you see,read or told.
Seek out the truth for yourself rather than wait to hear it from others.............
Everyone, everyone I have spoke to agrees the cop in Minneapolis should be charged. I am a conservative and I have both liberal and conservative friends, and they are all in agreement with this one. Its case closed. But, I am telling you, you do yourselves a disservice when you riot and destroy communities over anger. You lose millions of Americans' support when you destroy or loot.
Everyone, everyone I have spoke to agrees the cop in Minneapolis should be charged. I am a conservative and I have both liberal and conservative friends, and they are all in agreement with this one. Its case closed. But, I am telling you, you do yourselves a disservice when you riot and destroy communities over anger. You lose millions of Americans' support when you destroy or loot.
Agreed! While I understand that not having grievances heard can boil into riots that are heard, it did not seem like here in NYC that there were no other avenues for grievances to be lodged or complaints to be heard however arduous it might be, and it certainly makes less sense to do so in protest of the police force elsewhere. I’m glad that while the protests were vocal and with some confrontation, it was generally pretty harmless to lives and livelihoods.
This is absolutely not the case in Brooklyn right now. Lots of people are hurt, a precinct has been over run and there are fires everywhere.
Yea, I know, and I live in Brooklyn and have seen this--it's still generally pretty harmless to lives and livelihoods right now compared to what happened in MSP as far as I can tell. Maybe that'll change over the course of this evening and weekend, but for now I'm glad it's not entire blocks being torched like in previous riots.
If there was any decent NYC politician with a goddamn backbone and any care for things, then you'd hope they'd pull a Bobby Kennedy and commiserate on that anger and explicitly message that what happened in Minneapolis was awful, but we here and the NYPD are not the enemy and that anger can be channeled into something other than violence.
De'Blasio urges cops to 'light touch' on protestors as police vans BURN and BRICKS are thrown from
Well NYC voted for this...you were warned...now this is what you get.
Good luck out there!
Quote:
While many protesters in the city wore protective face masks, they largely flouted social-distancing rules.
Over 70 demonstrators were arrested including for criminal possession of a weapon and assaulting officers.
De Blasio urged the NYPD to go easy on the activists. “I want to see a light touch because people are undeniably angry for a reason,” he said."
How quickly our mayors turn on the police to win the smiles of the looters and how much quicker they turn to them for protection when they are threatened
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De'Blasio urges cops to 'light touch' on protestors as police vans BURN and BRICKS are thrown from
