They blocked the movement, insulted and defiled: an anti-police protest took place in Brooklyn
'02.11.2019'
Source: NY Post
On Friday evening, about a thousand police protesters marched in Brooklyn's city center, where they blocked traffic. They mutilated a city bus and shouted obscene insults at New York police, writes NY Post.
The demonstration began after 7 hours of the evening on the streets near the Barclays Center. The protesters held large posters with the inscriptions F - k the Police and Don't let these pigs touch us ("Do not let these pigs touch us"). By 9 evenings, the crowd of protesters began to disperse.
The demonstration was a response to controversial police actions in Brooklyn metro stations in recent weeks.
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In one incident, police attacked a passenger when he pulled out his pistol at the Franklin Avenue station in Brooklyn.
In another incident, the video captured the killing by a police officer of an 15-year-old guy in a fierce battle at Jay Street-MetroTech station in central Brooklyn.
"That's terrible! Am I really paying taxes for all this? And what's the point? ”- one of the protesters, 31-year-old woman working in the media, is indignant.
#Breaking: Just in - Massive anti-police protest going on in Downtown of # Brooklyn in New York. pic.twitter.com/Yvp05TQOHr
- Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) November 1, 2019
While the protesters chanted in the streets, one group surrounded the nearby MTA bus and desecrated it with stickers and anti-police graffiti.
F - k NYPD and "NYPD KKK," they scrawled on the bus.
One of the passengers who was inside the bus at that time said that they were “knocking on the bus, and then a teenager with a white mask and a hoodie with a marker wrote on the bus.”
“Of course, it was very scary,” the witness added.
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At some point, the demonstrators made their way to the nearest station "Hoyt-Schemerhorn". They jumped over the turnstile and shouted obscenities at the NYPD officers who were on duty there.
One subway passenger called on protesters to stop yelling at officers at the station, but the crowd turned to her and started shouting insults at her.
