Nakba Protest in Bay Ridge – May 18, 2024
At 2:00 pm today, several hundred Palestinians met in Bay Ridge for Nakba 76. (See live video here)
In Bay Ridge for @WOLPalestine’s Flood Brooklyn for Gaza Nakba Day.
— Talia Jane ???? (@taliaotg) May 18, 2024
NYPD is preventing the crowd from rallying against genocide in the street so they can stand around on their phones in the street. pic.twitter.com/jyJKYQJZx3
Video by Talia Jane – see video
Palestinians of all ages were present to peacefully protest.
The people didn’t like being in one area, so Nerdeen Kiswani, the head of From Within Our Lifetime chanted:
?LIVE now:
— Etana Hecht ?? ?? (@etanadeeIL) May 18, 2024
New grievances from the pro-Hamas crowd, chanting like drones, on the streets – well, sidewalks- of NYC:
"They want to cram us on a sidewalk
On a hot day
Creating unsafe conditions
Making people prone to fainting
And passing out
And having to scream super loud… pic.twitter.com/t4aGSmil7Z
Video by Etana Hetch (See video)
In 1948, around 700,000 Palestinians were cleansed from the area they knew as Palestine, which is now Israel. They call it the “Nakba,” which means the catastrophe.
#FreePalestine Protesters managed to evade police and get onto 5th Avenue in #BayRidge #Brooklyn. Some angry drivers rn pic.twitter.com/iVOXetA4fk
— Anthony Verias (@VeriasA) May 18, 2024
Video by Anthony Verias – see here
The signs say 76th Nakba because it is seventy-six years after 1948.
NOW: After rallying for a little over 2 hours, pro-Palestine protesters have now taken to the streets and are marching down 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge pic.twitter.com/Ds2rCRJvXX
— katie smith (@probablyreadit) May 18, 2024
Video by Katie Smith – see here
Before the march, some people put bike locks on the police barricades. This makes people less sympathetic to their cause because the police are doing their job.
There were a lot of police officers on bicycle this year. (See video)
Also different this year, journalist, Katie Smith showed that the police were on the rooftops (See video) and fire escapes (see video) Last year, protesters were on some fire escapes and rooftops.
Around 5:00 pm, it was raining and the crowd, most entirely made up of teens and people in their 20’s were angry.
There was a huge police presence – it wasn’t just the 68th Precinct officers. Some men threw mangos at the police. (See video) Police in riot gear showed up. In October, when there was a Palestinian protest, protesters were arrested, so the police were prepared. (See here)
The crowd divided up and marched down residential streets chanting. Helicopters and the police stayed with them.
Some people were arrested for lighting flares. (See here) Others were arrested for not listening when the police asked them to get out of the street and go to the sidewalk.
Hugs,
marlene
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