Posted on 04/30/2015 1:24:12 AM PDT by 9thLife
Over 100 Arrested Commanding Officer From 13th Precinct Hit With Flying Object
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A group that supports the protesters in Baltimore gathered in Union Square Wednesday and shut down the outbound Holland Tunnel, the West Side Highway and several other city streets as they marched.
More than 100 protesters were arrested as officers clashed with protesters around Manhattan, CBS2 reported. The protests followed rioting that began in Baltimore on Monday, in response to the police custody death of Freddie Gray.
NYC March In Baltimore Solidarity Protest Several hundred people gathered in Union Square around 6 p.m., and during the 7 p.m. hour, about 200 people broke off from Union Square and marched down 17th Street despite an order by officers to stay off the streets, 1010 WINS’ Gary Baumgarten reported.
On 17th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, protesters marched for less than five minutes before coming face to face with a line of NYPD officers in riot gear – a barrier that sparked instant anger and countless clashes in the street.
No serious injuries were reported, but a commanding officer from the NYPD 13th Precinct suffered minor injuries when he was hit with a flying object near Union Square, police said. There were too many arrests to track on the ground – some of them more dramatic than others, CBS2’s Weijia Jiang reported.
Jiang reported she and her crew got jostled around running in the middle of the action, and said the confrontation was more physical than those seen in Baltimore on Tuesday – the day after the riots.
Three officers were seen carrying one man, using every ounce of his energy to resist. Another handcuffed man was crouched in the street with his mouth gagged, and police also put several women into custody. Still, hundreds of people stayed defiant and determined.
“They’re obstructing us,” one man said. “We would like to march. These are our streets.” The man said it did not matter that police did not want protesters in the street.
“This is what justice is,” he said. “Sometimes it’s not pretty, but it has to happen.”
One woman said she was disappointed that police were arresting people for being in the street after being so accommodating in other protests.
As some protesters got into a shoving match with officers on 17th Street, and one woman ran in and shouted to stop, WCBS 880’s Alex Silverman reported. “Please. We’re not here to fight with the police. That’s not what we do,” she said. “We make more noise when we don’t be violent.”
The protesters were of all ages and races with a shared voice, Silverman reported.
“A civilian who’s unarmed can just be murdered by a policeman,” the woman said. “It’s a terrible situation.”
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Some of the dramatic arrests were hard to watch for children caught in the middle of the chaos. “I was really scared, because I thought (the police) were going to, like, take me, and I thought they were going to, like, put me in jail, or maybe even shoot me,” said Garvey Taylor, 8.
Garvey’s mother said the fear is understandable, and exactly why they marched.
“There are people willing to sacrifice themselves for this, and we’re going to keep going,” said Michelle Taylor. “This is not it. This is only the beginning.” As the night went on, multiple groups of protesters splintered off and shut down multiple city streets, One group headed west on 14th Street, another west on 21st Street from Broadway, and a third south on University Place.
A group of several hundred eventually made it to the Holland Tunnel. The outbound side of the tunnel was shut down as Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police blocked the entrance.
The protesters then took over the West Side Highway at Canal Street and began marching north. The highway was shut down in both directions.
On the West Side Highway — known as West Street in Lower Manhattan — some protesters pushed officers and threw bottles at them, CBS2 reported.
The group Millions March NYC, who helped organize the rally, said they are a multi-racial grassroots collective of activists who want to strengthen the “Black Lives Matter” movement, CBS2’s Alice Gainer reported.
Some of the participants told Gainer they stand with Baltimore and the residents’ resistance there. They also said they look to keep the rally in New York City peaceful and non-violent.
The NYPD had been on the scene from the start, blasting an automated message letting ralliers know that pedestrians are not allowed on the roadways, sending the message that marching on the streets of New York City would not be a good idea, Gainer reported.
Prior to the demonstration, Mayor Bill de Blasio had a message for protesters with the Shut It Down group, WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported.
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“I’d say that if you want to make change, keep things peaceful. When anyone gets involved in violent protests, it denigrates their cause,” the mayor said.
The mayor declared he found positive reports that some demonstrators in Baltimore saw people who wanted to be violent and worked with the police to isolate them.
“The vast majority of people are trying to work on the relationship between police and community. Do it in a peaceful manner,” de Blasio added.
” Stuff like this doesn’t usually take hold in NYC”
Yeah? Look at the pos mayor who has taken hold of NYC.
Rubber bullets? I’d prefer a projectile a little more forceful.
“When the music stops: how America’s cities may explode in violence.”
NEXT STEP: FLASH MOB RIOTS
In order to highlight their grievances and escalate their demands for an immediate resumption of government benefits, the MUY flash mobs will next move their activities to the borders of their ethnic enclaves. They will concentrate on major intersections and highway interchanges where non-MUY suburban commuters must make daily passage to and from what forms of employment still exist. People making a living will still be using those roads to get to where they earn their daily bread.
The results of these clashes will frequently resemble the intersection of Florence and Normandie during the Rodney King riots in 1992, where Reginald Denny was pulled out of his truck’s cab and beaten nearly to death with a cinder block. If you don’t remember it, watch it on Youtube. Then imagine that scene with the mob-making accelerant of texting and other social media technology added to stoke the fires. Instead of a few dozen thugs terrorizing the ambushed intersections, in minutes there will be hundreds.
Rioters will throw debris such as shopping carts and trash cans into the intersection, causing the more timid drivers to pause. The mobs will swarm the lines of trapped cars once they have stopped. Traffic will be forced into gridlock for blocks in all directions. Drivers and passengers of the wrong ethnic persuasions will be pulled from their vehicles to be beaten, robbed, and in some cases raped and/or killed. It will be hyper-violent and overtly racial mob behavior, on a massive and undeniable basis.
Some of those trapped in their cars will try to drive out of the area, inevitably knocking down MUY pedestrians and being trapped by even more outraged MUYs. The commuters will be dragged out of their cars and kicked or beaten to death. Other suburban commuters will try to shoot their way out of the lines of stopped cars, and they will meet the same grim fate once they run out of bullets and room to escape.
The mob will be armed with everything from knives, clubs and pistols to AK-47s. A bloodbath will result. These unlucky drivers and their passengers will suffer horribly, and some of their deaths will be captured on traffic web cameras. Later, these terrible scenes will be released or leaked by sympathetic government insiders and shown by the alternative media, which continue to expand as the traditional media become increasingly irrelevant.
thanks. this is the only place where I can get good answers to questions anymore :) I remember being a kid of 31 when I started following FR in 1999 ahhh, the memories...
how's that white privilege workin out for ya there you silly cow you?
Looking at the photos, its a group of stupid, white Leftists who spend their time gazing at their navels and bemoaning that they are not lucky enough to have been born poor, black victims.
Yea, verily yea.
I was going to suggest that you feature this link prominently on your FR page/wall. This, and “What I Saw At The Coup”...
We’re just trying to reach the reachable, and maybe encourage them to move out of the predictable lines of fire.
No way can we turn this barge around on the last bend in the Niagara River.
Exactly...
Hot lead and plenty of it. These are not innocent children here. These are hard core revolutionaries will kill you in the blink of an eye. The only reason they are not openly armed is because it hasn’t reached that stage ....yet.
That was the message the Mayor of Baltimore was sending to the rioters. She was telling them that she would have the police protect them from the motorists when they did that [dragged the occupants out of their vehicles and beat the hell out of them].
I think they should escalate the protests against the racist US
They should start by refusing to use the white man’s EBT cards
They should refuse to accept the white man’s welfare
They should refuse to live in the White man’s housing projects
Being homeless and penniless they should deprive the white man of their contributions to society and immigrate to a country less racist like Africa
This way they can follow the footsteps of their ancestors and build great societies and empires without the white man to hold them down
NAPALM !!
start by calling by what they are, not protesters, but anarchists! They have one thing on their mind and that is to destroy civilized society as we now it.
:snork:
“Purple rain?”
Purple drank.
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