.stephaniehshih's GrubDiet: 'As soon as someone crosses the barricade from cop custody, somebody else holds out a hand sanitizer and a mask, and then a legal person starts asking questions, and then it’s all the string cheese and Gatorade you can eat'
Stephanie Shih and her hardboiled eggs. Illustration: Margalit Cutler Over the last eight days, protests over the police killing of George Floyd have spread from Minneapolis to cities around the country and world. In New York, protesters have clashed with police, and thousands have gathered, even amid the coronavirus pandemic, to demonstrate against police brutality and systemic racism.
When I got to Barclays, it was pretty peaceful; there were already 1,000 people there. The first hour or two of any given protest is usually pretty peaceful as the protesters and cops are trying to feel each other out. What was surprising to me was how quickly things escalated. You know, it’s not that uncommon that a protester might throw a water bottle in the direction of the cops. The cops are supposed to not overreact.
When I came home at 11 p.m., I got into the shower right away. I could feel the pepper spray all over my eyes. My arms were burning and itchy; the pepper spray was basically being reactivated by the hot shower water. When I packed my bag for that day, I felt a lot more prepared. Like, “Okay, we’re gonna go out and the cops are going to be dicks.” I packed milk, I packed paper towels to dab people’s eyes . I made two boiled eggs. I felt a little bit more prepared, mentally and logistically. At that point, I was eating a bunch of cheese and cake to get calories in me.
Once we got into Manhattan, we marched peacefully for a few blocks, and we were met on the Bowery by a horde of 50 to 100 bike cops. Some tussle started there, and then out of nowhere 200 to 300 riot cops on scooters appeared. They started playing a recording saying, “This is an unlawful assembly, if you don’t disperse you’ll be arrested,” and then they charged us. We all ran down the Bowery, people were getting tackled left and right, one of my friends got arrested. I didn’t know until later.
I went to Barclays — we went over the bridge again, my least favorite thing — and eventually at some point that night, we ended up near Union Square. Did you see the video of the cop swinging his gun around? I was on 8th Street when that was on 12th Street. A home, I melted some cheese on a tortilla and called it a quesadilla. I also ate a bunch of mini-cucumbers, standing up, shoving them in my mouth. And I think I had some more Pocky, just scavenging the kitchen for whatever was still there. Of course, there was still cake, so I ate cake.I woke up again and was like, “She is not going out. There is no fucking way.” And a friend texted me and was like, “Thank you so much for being out on the front lines.
It’s definitely harder to care about food, and something I noticed is when I’m out in the street, not only do I not think about food; I don’t even get hungry. That’s why, when I get home, I’m so ravenous. Like, at the point when I start shoveling food in my mouth, I don’t even feel hunger yet. I just start grabbing random things I see.
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