Different demonstrations erupted across the Big Apple, including ones in Union Square, Times Square and Grand Central Terminal.
Several different demonstrations erupted across the Big Apple, including ones in Union Square, Times Square and Grand Central Terminal.
The protests appeared to remain peaceful early Friday night, but at Union Square, Black Lives Matter leader, Hawk Newsome, warned that violence isn’t off the table. “Was they peaceful when they were stomping on brother Nichols’ head, when they was hitting him with that baton?” Newsome said to a crowd of dozens of people.“But they want us to always be peaceful,” the activist went on to say. “I’m not telling you to come out here and wild out but we ain’t never taking violence off the f–king table. Because that’s the language of America.”
Another small protest was underway inside Grand Central Terminal, according to footage posted on Twitter shortly before 6 p.m. Demonstrators were calling for the closure of Rikers Island as they held signs commemorating Nichols and other black men who died following confrontations with police.
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