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brooklynite

(94,727 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2015, 04:49 PM Apr 2015

Protests in NYC at Brooklyn Bridge. Anyone know why?

Brooklyn Daily Eagle ?@BklynEagle 1m1 minute ago
From police scanner: 40 protestors are south of the #Brooklyn tower, brooklyn bound on the vehicular roadway. Calling for aviation.

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Protests in NYC at Brooklyn Bridge. Anyone know why? (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2015 OP

APRIL 14—STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL! countryjake Apr 2015 #1

Well, that was a mistake... brooklynite Apr 2015 #2

A single spark can start a prairie fire. n/t countryjake Apr 2015 #4

And you don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows. Comrade Grumpy Apr 2015 #5

Police brutality protests. hrmjustin Apr 2015 #3

countryjake

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1. APRIL 14—STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 05:09 PM

Apr 2015

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShutDownA14?src=hash

Call from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network

APRIL 14—STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL!
WE WILL NOT GO BACK! NO SCHOOL! NO WORK!
SAY NO MORE TO THE SYSTEM GIVING A GREEN LIGHT TO KILLER COPS!
http://stopmassincarceration.net/content/call-shutdowna14#

Protesters in New York Demonstrate Against Police Brutality, Attempt to Take Brooklyn Bridge 4/14/15

http://www.newsweek.com/protesters-new-york-demonstrate-against-police-brutality-attempt-take-brooklyn-322378

On Tuesday, hundreds of New Yorkers marched in protest of police brutality. The protest began in Union Square and headed south towards City Hall.

"On April 14, we're going to revive the spirit of Ferguson, that spirit of refusing to suffer the brutality of the system in silence. And we're going to take it high. We have to get back out into the streets to declare that we're not backing down, we're not going away,” activist Carl Dix told the War is a Crime Organization.

The protesters attempted to enter the Brooklyn Bridge, as they did in previous protests following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

According to a Victoria Bekiempis, a Newsweek reporter at the scene, two people were handcuffed, a man who appeared to be in his 20's and a teenage girl. It is unclear it either were formally arrested or charged. Bekiempis observed several dozen protesters enter the roadway on Brooklyn Bridge and disturbing traffic. Other protesters crossed the walking path of the bridge, approaching Brooklyn near 5 PM.