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Several demonstrators were arrested in New York City at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest expressing solidarity with crowds in Chicago and Minneapolis.
VIDEO: One of multiple arrests during the #4thPrecinctShutDown solidarity march in NYC tonight. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/YYuYUAul94
— Jenna Pope (@JennaBPope) November 26, 2015
Almost a thousand demonstrators rallied in Washington Square Park in Manhattan and marched protesting police brutality in New York City and across the US.
Hundreds gathered in Washington Square Park, NYC in solidarity with the #4thPrecinctShutDown. pic.twitter.com/lT3Wh8i9ol — Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) November 25, 2015
NYPD officers have arrested at least a dozen protesters, eyewitnesses say, describing the police response as “extremely iron-fisted.”
The police are “just charging into groups and grabbing people,” one witness said.
Now hundreds of #NYPD Anti-terrorism task force officers deployed in the streets #4thPrecinctShutDown pic.twitter.com/1vnLQpziuf
— JamesFromTheInternet (@JamesFTInternet) November 26, 2015
Multiple arrests during the New York protests with police forcing people onto the sidewalks.
#Lombardo the body snatcher has thousands of #BlackLivesMatter marchers rolled up on sidewalk. https://t.co/mhwuSEOGMZ
— JamesFromTheInternet (@JamesFTInternet) November 26, 2015
Marchers have reached New York’s Union Square. In addition to “Justice for Laquan McDonald,” activists are calling for the shut down of Precinct 4 in Minneapolis with the hashtag #4thPrecinctShutDown
The #4thPrecinctShutDown solidarity march in #NYC has reached Union Square…madness! pic.twitter.com/5c4sjp96Ym
— JamesFromTheInternet (@JamesFTInternet) November 26, 2015
Police are keeping calm but outfitted with plastic handcuffs.
Watch out for flying pigs! #NYPD #NYC #4thPrecinctShutDown solidarity! pic.twitter.com/RpfzwidNG5
— JamesFromTheInternet (@JamesFTInternet) November 26, 2015
Police in New York while keeping protesters on sidewalks, often were blocking protesters at street crossing sections.
