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NYC Has Become A Dystopian Novel: What Happened After 8pm Curfew I’ve been to many protests and marches during my life, but I’ve never seen anything like what we experienced last night. I think everyone around the country and world needs to understand what’s happening here.pic.twitter.com/kWdgdLxZ6M
We went out yesterday to a 1pm protest that began at Foley Park in Manhattan. The march led us to through soho and into washington square park. It was easily the most peaceful protest I’ve been to in a long time. Likely because there was barely a police presence.pic.twitter.com/r4unukgK5k
By the time we got to washington square park, there were about 20,000 people there. As we stood in the park taking a moment of silence for those murdered, everyone got an alert that the curfew for the night was 8pm. We all booed for a moment, and then moved on.pic.twitter.com/6OYSY42oC6
We ended up walking through Manhattan for hours, chanting and being together. Eventually our numbers grew, to what I imagine was easily 100,000+ people. As it got later in the day, we marched to Trump International Hotel to protest outside.pic.twitter.com/rLpKtBj3RD
As tens of thousands of us stood there, we got a second alert about the curfew on our phones around 7:30. Then I looked up and noticed something I had never seen before. It was a digital billboard over Columbus Circle running various eerie messages from Andrew Cuomo.pic.twitter.com/KBtQVtIYrD
Other messages included things along the lines of “Rioting does not honor George Floyd’s death.” and “Don’t be a criminal.” It felt very Hunger Games-ish. As we read the messages we noticed that it was almost 8pm, and cop cars were beginning to pull up towards us.
We started to march again. As we did, police cars and groups of officers began following us with batons out. When we saw the batons, we decided to leave and walked to the subway. When we got close, we saw officers shoving and arresting people trying to go home on the subway.pic.twitter.com/Ze6pmOiCTf
At this point it was about 2 minutes after curfew. Since the subway was dangerous, we figured we would walk a different direction and get Uber’s home. But when trying to call cars, we all got notifications that Uber wasn’t picking people up any longer because of the curfew.pic.twitter.com/nPkZFg2Dq2
At this point we were all miles away from our homes and afraid we would be assaulted by police if we were in our small group. We decided to catch up to the march and follow it until there was a safer point. As we did, more cop cars began following us.pic.twitter.com/nUgD840wcL
We marched with the group for a few minutes, looking for an opportunity to safely get to a subway station, but the police had every side street cut off. We realized then that they had the march surrounded. A few minutes later countless police and police cars came rushing at us.
Everyone scattered and ran for their lives (I mean this quite literally. We thought we could be killed.) Many people who ran to the side streets were grabbed by police. Those of us who didn’t reformed our group and kept marching with each other until we found safety.
We marched for hours more. Still chanting and demonstrating, but exhausted and just trying to find a a safe passage home. But the police kept following us and cutting off the streets.pic.twitter.com/xMbDVHBeJL
Eventually they rushed us again and started grabbing and hitting people for no reason, so groups of us ran downtown, where we ended up being trapped by police until someone called them off. I’ve feared for my life many times, but I’ve never felt that I was being toyed with.
Ultimately, the NYPD never wanted anyone to be able to make it home. They set us up to mentally and physically torture us. Protesting after curfew, whether it’s a few minutes or a few hours, doesn’t warrant this type of insidious behavior.
It is no exaggeration to say that NYC is currently treating peaceful protests as the Handmaids Tale or Hunger Games. I fear for the lives of everyone here with the courage to fight for justice. I hope this helps our movement understand what we are up against.pic.twitter.com/pk6lIWqWnC
I’ll be sharing information from every protest I attend and information or updates sent to me that are vital to this effort.
Please be safe everyone. #BlackLivesMatter
#newyorkprotest
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