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Responding to videos showing two police vans plowing into a crowd of protesters in Brooklyn on Saturday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the demonstrators and not police had behaved inappropriately and bore the brunt of the blame for the incident.
The footage is upsetting, and I wish the officers hadnt done that, de Blasio said during a press conference Saturday night as protests raged in New York and dozens of other cities nationwide in response to the police killing of George Floyd. But I also understood that they didnt start this situation. The situation was started by a group of protesters converging on a police vehicle, attacking that vehicle.
Videos of the incident, which was shared widely on social media, show a New York City Police Department van in the middle of a road, a barricade in front of it. A crowd of demonstrators stands in front of the vehicle, some of whom appear to throw objects at it. One person is seen approaching the vehicle from behind to toss what appears to be a trash bag onto the van, while another person runs up to the drivers side of the vehicle before dashing away.
Another NYPD van then arrives, driving past the first van straight into a group of demonstrators. The first van is seen then to suddenly accelerate, pushing the barricade into protesters.
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uponit7771
(90,335 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Nearly the entire NYPD turned their back on him when he was sworn in
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Protesters do the vehicle
It is not justification to endanger people hurt them or kill them.
The state monopolizes violence,so it feels entitled to harm people.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)that asshole has turned out to be.
EarlG
(21,947 posts)when he finds out that cars have the ability to go backwards as well as forwards.