Defiant NYC protesters march through curfew
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June 04, 2020
Photo by Leonard McKenzie
Although an 8 p.m. curfew is in place through Sunday here in New York City, didn’t thousands of resistant demonstrators marched through the streets on Tuesday night.
The citywide curfew was necessary to avert the widespread damage and destruction that followed peaceful daytime protests.
But demonstrators continued winding through the streets, as part of ongoing nationwide protests following the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man who died last week after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on Floyd’s neck even after he stopped moving and pleading for air.
Two Associated Press journalists were forced by NYPD officers forced to stop covering the protests, despite an order allowing media to remain on city streets.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said the officer-involved shooting was not connected to the protests.
