No one can breathe: The view from the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., as protests roil the nation via KaylaJardineV
“It seems very obvious that black and brown people are being killed for no reason,” said one protester in Brooklyn, N.Y., wearing a shirt that read “Powered by the black men before me.” Marchers also shouted the name of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot while sleeping in her home in Louisville, Ky.
Multiple protests erupted across New York City, some turning violent. In one video circulating social media, a police van appears to drive slowly into a crowd of protesters, attempting to disperse them as they attacked another police vehicle nearby. On the video it appears that none of the protesters were run over.Shoving and beating nonviolent people is not deescalation.
Story continuesIn Fort Greene, a gentrified, mixed-race neighborhood near the Barclays Center arena, a police van was set ablaze as nearby protesters watched. The coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected African-Americans, was on the minds of the protesters — virtually all of whom, in Brooklyn at least, were wearing masks, although crowded together and shouting, conditions that are conducive to spreading the infection.
Cynthia Turnquest, founder of Tha Brown Urban Mother Partnership, spoke to a large group of protesters about the importance of turning out in the 2020 election. “You better make sure that you vote because there are communities where voting do matter,” Turnquest said. “So until you start making sure that individuals count, until you make sure that black lives matter, black lives won’t motherf***ing matter.
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