New York City has imposed a curfew of 8PM on Tuesday, three hours earlier than it was on Monday, after waves of looting followed peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd. The flagship Macy&…
The flagship Macys store in New York City's Herald Square is watched by police after being looted late Monday.has imposed a curfew of 8PM on Tuesday, three hours earlier than it was on Monday, after waves of looting followed peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd.
The flagship Macy’s department store in Herald Square, a familiar site to TV viewers of the Thanksgiving Day parade, as well as a number of other retail stores were ransacked Monday as police worked to contain the situation. Before Monday, the last time New York had a curfew was in 1943, when an African-American soldier was shot and injured by a white police officer. “These protests have power and meaning,” Mayor Bill De Blasio wrote on Twitter late Monday. “But as the night wears on we are seeing groups use them to incite violence and destroy property. Our first priority is keeping people safe, so I’m extending the curfew to Tuesday. It will begin at 8pm.”Off Broadway's Obie Awards Postponed Due To National Unrest: "Not A Time For Celebration Or Diversion" New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he had co-ordinated efforts with De Blasio and had planned to double the number of police officers on the streets to 8,000. The show of force did not seem to help deter looting, at least initially, as it swept through Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx, though hundreds of arrests were eventually made. Videos captured by media outlets showed fires being set and looters using sticks and their feet to break through wood, glass and metal and gain access to stores. New York is one of several major cities across the U.S. seeing large-scale demonstrations in the wake of Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. The city has already been crippled for nearly three months by COVID-19, and while the numbers are declining it still has the highest tally of infections and deaths due to the of any place in the world. Transit systems and retail stores had already been weeks from making a gradual return, with boarded-up storefronts adding to an already unnerving scene across the city.
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