Crime & Safety
Black Lives Matter Protesters Rally Friday for Second Consecutive Day, Flood Grand Central
Protesters took to the streets of New York City again Friday to protest police killings.
Black Lives Matter protesters march in New York City for the second consecutive day Friday. Photo courtesy of Twitter user Hannah Smith (@hannahisnotlost)
NEW YORK CITY, NY — Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets Friday to protest police killings for the second consecutive day.
On Friday protesters once again formed up in Union Square before marching uptown. In addition to the Union Square protest, rallies also gathered on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge. There were no attests made during Friday night's protests, a police spokesman told Patch.
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Join us on the brooklyn side of the williamsburg bridge #blacklivesmatter #nycprotest pic.twitter.com/dZWCP4LBxq
— Hannah Smith (@hannahisnotlost) July 9, 2016
Protesters marched in opposition police violence and for justice victims of such violence. This week the killings of three black men — Delrawn Small of Brooklyn, Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philandro Castille of St. Paul, Minnesota — inspired protests nationwide.
At one point Friday night protesters took over the main terminal of Grand Central Station.
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Protest streaming into Grand Central. pic.twitter.com/Q4nzag9L6m
— Nick Fountain (@nickfountain) July 9, 2016
Of the more than 1,000 Black Lives Matter activists who marched miles upon miles through Midtown Manhattan and up into Harlem late Thursday night through Friday morning — expressing pain and rage over three police killings of black men in three different American cities this week, including in Brooklyn — 42 were arrested, according to the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
A spokeswoman for the NYPD said Friday afternoon that with everything going on in Dallas and around the country, she was too busy to provide Patch with names or arrest numbers for the 42 protesters taken into custody.
The vast majority of them were charged with disorderly conduct, issued a summons to return to court and released Friday, she said. However, four were still being held at Central Booking as of Friday afternoon and were scheduled to be arraigned in court.
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