In NYC to cover the Occupy City Hall protest for @townhallcom and people have set up a “No Pig Zone.” They are calling for the city to defund and/or abolish the NYPD.
A sign says this is the “City Hall Autonomous Zone.”
A sign says this is the “City Hall Autonomous Zone.”
When I see the CHAZ acronym again:
This is the tent part of the NYC CHAZ, where there’s medic, food, and water stations.
One speaker at the NYC CHAZ said voting out members of the city council who are not in favor of defunding the NYPD is not enough, “ruin their lives.”
Some media members got harassed by some of the NYC CHAZers after they started to film someone who jumped onto one of their news trucks.
The crowd was upset because they were worried the media filming that individual would delegitimize the movement.
The crowd was upset because they were worried the media filming that individual would delegitimize the movement.
Someone showed up to the NYC CHAZ in a Spider-Man costume and delivered Papa Johns pizza to the occupiers.
A lot of pro-police defunding protesters are out this evening at NYC’s CHAZ.
Crowd near NYC’s CHAZ chants: “NYPD! Suck my dick!”
A protester dances in front of a line of NYPD officers outside of One Police Plaza.
Protesters heckled the NYPD officers, including the dancer from above, who called the black officer a traitor to his people and a “fucking black Judas.”
Occupiers near NYC’s CHAZ are building a makeshift barricade in the street using nearby construction materials.
NYC CHAZ occupiers have used the construction materials to block off multiple roads near city hall.
NYPD officers tell the crowd to back up after a few agitators got in some of the officers’ faces.
NYC City Hall occupiers trying to expand their perimeter and build makeshift barricades out of newspaper stands and garbage cans.
NYC CHAZ occupiers once again block off the road by city hall and instruct drivers to not enter the street because a protest crowd is about to march down.
NY City Hall Occupiers projecting “Abolish The NYPD” onto a building across the street.
Some more graffiti near the NYC CHAZ: “Cops Must Die,” “All Cops Lie,” and “We’re taking what we deserve.”
NYC agitators tell a black NYPD officer that if he took off his badge, the white cops would kill him because they don’t care about him.
