Businesses Can’t Open But A Protest Can Happen?
A few more images from today’s #foleysquare protest: pic.twitter.com/bpYNX3PlQU
— Nina Roberts (@ninarobertsnyc) May 29, 2020
NYC Leaders have double-standard and communication is very unclear.
People are told to be socially distant and businesses can’t open.
But a huge protest can be organized. And the NYC Public Advocate, Jumaane Williams shared it as to invite people to attend. (See here)
I believe someone needed to file permits for the protest. This was an organized event where people would not be socially distant.
Look at this video of the huge crowd:
Big crowd chanting Black Lives Matter outside Barclays Center pic.twitter.com/YW2LfzF3Zg
— Noah Hurowitz (@NoahHurowitz) May 29, 2020
More events like this are planned for the weekend. See here and another one for Brooklyn here.
Police officers showed up to the protest in gear because they were told to control the event. We shouldn’t hear any politicians speaking out on the police for following orders.
Extremely tense here pic.twitter.com/7jtMdDBtmx
— Jon Campbell (@j0ncampbell) May 29, 2020
Do you think their are any police officers who want people that close to them during the corona virus?
Protesters brought fire crackers and set a police vehicle on fire .
To be clear this is far from over. Here’s scene at Fifth Avenue and St Marks. Cops just fired off some pepper spray pic.twitter.com/5nltjLDCvy
— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) May 30, 2020
The people aren’t there to protest and mourn – they are there to take out their anger on the police.
George Floyd was a repeat situation of Eric Gardner (which is awful, but will continue until in this country doesn’t allow it).
But this didn’t happen in NYC again!
The NYPD can’t be paying because people are rested and angry.
Leaders in NYC can not allow protests to happen when businesses can’t open and people are still in quarantine.
There should not be mixed messages from the top during a pandemic.
Hugs,
marlene
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