One video showed an officer use his baton to shove to the ground a protester who was on a bike.
is under fire from LGTBQ advocates after officers were filmed assaulting a group of protesters and using pepper spray on them during an arrest at a pride rally.
A demonstrator scuffles with a police officer during a joint LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter march on the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, June 28, 2020. A demonstrator scuffles with a police officer during a joint LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter march on the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, June 28, 2020.
“Fifty-one years after the Stonewall Rebellion, the NYPD is still responding to peaceful, powerful, righteous queer joy with pepper spray, batons, and handcuffs,” he said in a statement.
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