City Hall Occupiers Issue Packed Fourth Day Schedule

The organizers "shutting down" City Hall Park in the Financial District this week published a thorough schedule for their fourth day camping out. On their fourth day, they celebrated the victory of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton resigning while they pushed for their other two initial demands: reparations for victims of police violence and the defunding of the NYPD.

"On Tuesday, the group celebrated an early win when NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton unexpectedly announced his sudden resignation," the Millions March NYC press release said Thursday.

The Thursday schedule is packed with workshops on police brutality and race relations. Nicholas Heyward, whose son was shot and killed by an NYPD officer in 1994 when he was just 13, will give a speech at 5 p.m. His son was playing with a toy gun in the stairwell of his apartment in the Gowanus Housing Project when he was killed.

Millions March NYC called Bratton's resignation "a huge win for the YC grassroots movement that, for years, has been fighting for the NYPD commissioner to be fired and an end to Broken Windows policing."

They added, "This is only the beginning. We won't stop until the abolition of the entire policing institution."

Image via Millions March NYC Facebook Page

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