Mayor Bill de Blasio said the site had become 'less and less about protest, and more and more became an area where homeless folks were gathering.'
Occupy City Hall began in late June as a protest calling for a billion-dollar cut to the New York Police Department's $6 billion budget. Protesters camped out on a small patch of grass near City Hall ahead of the June 30 deadline to finalize next year's city budget.criticized
“Defunding police means defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a Williams said his organization, Vocal, did not remain officially involved in Occupy City Hall after the budget was passed, but that he has returned frequently to the site. Even as the plaza turned from a protest encampment to one more focused on supporting people experiencing homelessness, he said activism at the site remained.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio did not indicate there were plans to break up the encampment. He had said doing so would be the NYPD's decision.
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