[blueplum]

42nd and 9th Ave - Central Manhattan - all ped and vehicle traffic shut down. Demonstrators staging a sit in.

Police pushing crowd to sidewalk.

Crowd shouting Peace! Peace !

I Can’t Breathe I Can’t Breathe!

No Justice No Peace

No Racist Police

Officers setting up orange netting to corral protestors on the sidewalk. Officers now control the street. Horses brought in. Handing out zipties. Crowd surrounded on 4 sides. Cardboard boxes of zipties.

Crowd chanting, are we being detained or are we free to go?

someone leading chant, we are here today because of....(fill in the blank)

chanting continues.

This is a peaceful protest. And this is how you treat. Those who stand up. Are we being detained. Or are we free to go?

now a chant of ‘let us go!’

live feeder ‘preparing for arrest’ and getting paranoid

Officer announcing now that they will let everyone go but in small groups.

[live feeder is increasing the paranoia but it’s the only live feed I can find right now so grin and bear it.]

some unidentified leader is leading a chant to go back to Union Square

still developing...

[Zeneta]

I will give the NYCPD a hand for knowing how to handle a crowd.

Excellent job herding them like cattle.

[FredZarguna]

So the World Workers or some other commie outfit managed to bus a couple of hundred people into the Port Authority. They walked a few blocks, snarled up traffic, failed to aggravate the NYPD enough to get the response they wanted and will be released in time to catch the last bus back to wherever.

Sounds like one more good reason to avoid Midtown [as if anyone needed one...]