De Blasio backs George Floyd protests despite coronavirus gathering ban

[rangerrebew]

 De Blasio backs George Floyd protests despite coronavirus gathering ban

By Julia Marsh

May 29, 2020 | 1:41pm | Updated
 
 

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday welcomed peaceful mass protests in the Big Apple over the police-involved death of George Floyd — even as he has staunchly barred other demonstrations, religious gatherings and fined small businesses $1,000 for reopening.

“I want to just say anyone who wants to protest, we’re going to protect your right to protest, but please also respect [that] the cop in front of you did not create the problem,” de Blasio said on WNYC radio’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.”

He was referring to the hundreds of activists who gathered in Lower Manhattan Thursday — in violation of the city’s pandemic lockdown rules — in the latest national demonstration sparked in the days since a handcuffed Floyd, who was black, died after a white police officer held him to the ground with a knee to his neck in Minneapolis.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/george-floyd-protests-okay-amid-coronavirus-gathering-ban-de-blasio/

[Gefn]

This story is from the 29.

All hell broke out last night in the 5 boroughs, over 100 arrested last night plus  NYPD vehicles hit protestors in Brooklyn last night.



No mayor will be happy about that. I’m sure.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nypd-vehicles-strike-protestors-in-brooklyn/2439873/

(Video embedded in article)

[PeteS in CA]

So, "protesters"' rights to gather and "speak" are to be honored, but churches' and synagogues' and etc.'s rights are not?

[PeteS in CA]

This story is from the 29.

All hell broke out last night in the 5 boroughs, over 100 arrested last night plus  NYPD vehicles hit protestors in Brooklyn last night.


No mayor will be happy about that. I’m sure.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nypd-vehicles-strike-protestors-in-brooklyn/2439873/

For some reason, the embedded video isn't playing for me. It just goes spinny-spinny-spinny and when I close that browser window my browser is tied in knots for several seconds. Anyway, perhaps the officers in those two police cars knew about this incident, or were merely prescient, https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/05/31/nypd-hit-molotov-cocktails-peaceful-protesters/ . "Protesters" trying to box in and thereby immobilize police cars are not there to decorate their windshield wipers with daisies.