NY Daily News – by JASON MOLINET , JOE STEPANSKY , LAURA BULT
Protesters jammed Union Square and clashed with NYPD officers as they marched through the streets of New York City in solidarity with Baltimore activists Wednesday night, briefly shutting down the Holland Tunnel and snarling traffic along the West Side Highway – resulting in at least 100 arrests.
What began as a small gathering at Union Square around 6 p.m. swelled to more than 1,000 people, many holding “Justice 4 Freddie Gray” placards while chanting “Black Lives Matter” and continued into the early hours Thursday.
“Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, shut the whole system down!” the crowd shouted and then broke into several smaller protests, moving on to Herald Square, Times Square, Columbus Circle and everywhere in between.
NYPD officers, many wearing riot helmets and carrying handfuls of plastic cuffs, were seen loading several activists into police vans.
“We walked to West Side Highway and the cops cornered people so people were fighting back,” Chris Carmack, 18, a political science major at Hunter who lives in Flatbush, told the Daily News.
He came to the protest with his roommate.
“I got a baton to the temple and my roommate got a baton to the stomach,” said Carmack, who claims cops retaliated when a protester hurled a water bottle at them.
Video shows the moment cops moved in to disrupt the peaceful rally, getting physical with protesters by now flooding Broadway and E. 17th St.
“Get in there and pick somebody out. Not the press.” an unidentified NYPD captain said as he pushed a fellow cop toward the crowd.
One officer was seen manhandling an older woman and tossing her to the pavement as she shrieked.
Another marcher was put in what appeared to be a headlock by an NYPD officer near Madison Square Garden.
Police reported more than 100 people in custody waiting to be processed at 10:30 p.m., many of them detained along the West Side Highway near the tunnel.
Marchers were warned to stay off the street and not to block traffic or risk getting arrested. The NYPD handed out flyers and announced their rules of engagement with an audio recording.
It didn’t deter the likes of Nes Roberts, 40, from Flatbush.
“I couldn’t be in my bed knowing that people from all walks of life are out here and black youths are getting killed,” Roberts told The News. “I couldn’t see not coming out here when people like myself are getting killed.”
At least one officer was hurt. NYPD Capt. Brendan Timoney was struck on the chin by a flying object at Fifth Ave. and 17th St., cops said.
There was no word on other injuries.
https://twitter.com/KeeganNYC/status/593569458649735168
Freddie Gray, 25, died more than two weeks ago after his spine was nearly severed while in Baltimore police custody.
His death sparked fiery riots in Baltimore and the latest in a series of rallies that have gripped NYC since a violent summer that saw the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Mo., at the hands of cops.
Several more high-profile incidents have happened since then from Cleveland to South Carolina, casting a light on racial justice and police use of force.
While Baltimore was mostly quiet Wednesday night, protests also sprung up in Boston, Seattle, Minneapolis, Houston and several smaller cities around the nation.
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http://www.thenation.com/article/205873/last-nights-solidarity-march-nypd-came-out-swinging
http://observer.com/2015/04/people-were-brutalized-pols-and-activists-blast-police-tactics-used-during-protest/
http://observer.com/2015/04/nan-head-de-blasio-submitted-to-get-sharpton-answers-about-nypd-protest-response/
Obviously NYC has a much larger instigator/agitator slush fund than Baltimore.
These sheeple are stupid to be out there without at least being paid for it like the agents…
“I couldn’t be in my bed knowing that people from all walks of life are out here and black youths are getting killed,” Roberts told The News. “I couldn’t see not coming out here when people like myself are getting killed.”
Go back to sleep (or stay asleep, more accurately speaking) moron, because that lame sh#t you’re doing will have ZERO EFFECT as far as stopping pigs from killing people.
Maybe, JUST MAYBE you can vote in some GOOD politicians, and THEY’LL put a screeching halt to all this mayhem by the pigs, RIGHT?
I rest my case.
I’m sure you’ll have more to add after reading the 3 links that I posted in the comments. LOL 😉 (wink)
Not too sure about that, Angel.
That was a pretty hefty dose of stupid all by itself. 🙁
LOL Agreed. 🙂
However, there are some statements that I’d like you to see. 😉
O.K., but later. I want to check out a few more articles, and then stroll down to the river and toss a line before it gets too late. It’s a beautiful sunny day, and the breeze just died down. 🙂
😀 😀 😀
“When police give instruction, you follow the instruction,” Mr. de Blasio said at a City Hall press conference today. “We won’t tolerate illegality; we won’t tolerate disorder.”
SERIOUSLY, YOU FAT, COMMIE F%&K???
Well, WE won’t tolerate illegality (commies) either, but I guess your stupid fat @ss will figure that out when the rope is around your useless neck!
Good. I’m glad they got the crap beaten out of them. Now they know they have to be armed.
(Mark: I’ve never even held an AR-15 in my hands)
Even if they were armed, the idiots would just hold their weapons and not use them as the Nazi police beat the shit out of them, grab their weapons and arrest them. The sheeple love to use their weapons as paperweights and nothing more.
Seriously, it’s not rocket science. If someone is coming at you with a baton, ready to beat the hell out of you, you either run or fight back. Standing there while getting the shit beat out of you is not going to solve the problem.
The Gray cases gets stranger and stranger and Stranger as the police look and investigate all facts and explore every possible to get there cops out of this mess. What mixed bag of NUTS, are they going to feed the Grand Jerky on this one to get them off? And they best quit the bark well a Grand Jerky found him innocent. A Grand Jerky only states the Cops did not present enough evidence to have it go to trial.
Amazing how all of these George Soros funded Commie protests are happening right around May Day. What a coincidence! NOT!
“It was May Day for Freddie Gray.”
“ ‘I’m looking at the signs and going ‘huh?’ In the 1960s May Day was a communist league, now they don’t know who they are protesting,’ ”
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/disarm-the-nypd-protesters-respond-to-gray-homicide-ruling/131298