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Overhead, someone has paid to fill a billboard with messages, supposedly from @NYCGovCuomo, calling on New Yorkers to “help me restore calm.” order. The governor never sent those tweets, and the handle doesn’t exist 🤔🤔🤔
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Protesters now on Upper West Side, moving up Broadway to supportive cheers/bangs from neighbors. Lots of cops circling, but no engagement so far
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Ricky (left) is a doorman at West End near 81st. He was sobbing when I approached. “I’m speechless. It’s beautiful man... I’m only 26 I’ve never seen nothing like this.” Elvis (right) thanked the protesters for being peaceful.
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Was in the process of tweeting about the Tupac dance party in front of 100 cops when they decided to charge. At least one reporter was tackled. Several others arrested for standing in streets. This was the definition of a peaceful protest. Now we’ll see
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I cannot understand the point of this. An NYPD Chief told protesters they were okay marching after curfew if they stayed peaceful. They were. This was the scene before the ambush
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Another short clip from this one-sided confrontation. Young black man arrested for seemingly no reason. A cop slams his baton into an oven. Now we’re in Times Square reading off the names and ages of those killed by police. “Trayvon Martin. Fucking Seventeen.”
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Members of this group just helped stop someone trying to break the window of a JCP (first attempt at destruction I’ve seen tonight). Crowd moved along quick, still chanting “peaceful protest”
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Bottles fly on 6th Ave during another chase/beat down in Chelsea. Chief Vega (carrying a wooden table leg?) spraying mace and telling protesters they’re in violation of curfew. “We’re the peaceful ones,” shouts Travis Hill, a Brooklyn resident.
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