This is my neighborhood & many of us showed up tonight at #Barclays for the life & dignity of #GeorgeFloyd & solidarity w/ #BlackLiveMatter. Massive #NYPD presence & vastly peaceful crowd. 1/
We came home puzzled at what happened & I'm hearing ppl outside on the street making sense of it. #NYPD deployed mace & the air smelled of it. Someone burned a sign. Someone else set off a fireworks popper. But this was not character of the crowd gathered. 2/
The crowd I witnessed outside #Barclays looked like my neighborhood. Diverse, calm, helping each other, holding signs expressing anger at black lives needlessly taken. People handing out food. 3/
Honestly we're watching the videos & trying to understand what happened where the #NYPD sprayed mace & wrestled ppl down to make arrests. But this was vastly a nonviolent crowd of regular ppl standing up for each other. 4/
#GeorgeFloyd #AhmaudArbery & too many others deserved to live & breathe free. The very least we can do is show up to say all of these #BlackLivesMatter. 5/5
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