Police protests: riots in New York erupted with renewed vigor

Over the weekend, protesters rioted New York in solidarity with protesters in Portland and Seattle. As a result of this, six cars NYPDs were damaged. The edition writes about it New York Post.

On the evening of Saturday, July 25, demonstrators staged a protest against police in Lower Manhattan. As a result, six marked NYPD vehicles were vandalized.

As seen in the video, the vandals first try to break the windows in the graffiti-painted police vans. In another segment of the video, four demonstrators are shown jumping in a police SUV - one of them holding an upturned American flag that says "Fk NYPD". Another participant in the riots shouted "F-k you, pigs" towards the police.

Riots began on Rivington Street and Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side. Several hundred protesters gathered there and headed towards One Police Plaza, the headquarters of the New York City Police Department.

During the evening protests, several street garbage cans were also set on fire. New Yorkers, who peacefully dined on the terraces of restaurants, witnessed a surreal picture - a confrontation between demonstrators and police.

Tensions peaked near Confucius Square in Chinatown, where cops ordered protesters to disperse. “If you leave voluntarily, no charges will be brought against you,” the entry said. "If you refuse to leave, you will be arrested for an illegal meeting."

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Obviously, more than a dozen people chose the latter, since at least 18 arrests were made for an illegal assembly.

Demonstrators protested in solidarity with Portland, Oregon, a city increasingly characterized by violent clashes between demonstrators and authorities.

Similar chaos swept through Atlanta, Seattle and Baltimore on Saturday.

National unrest sparked by the death of African Americans George Floyd in Minneapolis. The man died in May of this year after a policeman pressed his neck with his knee for almost nine minutes.

Mass protests covered New York for several nights, where large-scale acts of vandalism and robbery were carried out in the first days after Floyd's death.

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