Thursday, March 11, 2021

Over 700 Complaints About NYPD Officers Abusing Black Lives Matter Protesters, Then Silence — ProPublica

...As hundreds of demonstrators were marching peacefully in the Bronx on the evening of June 4, New York Police Department officers blocked their way from in front and then behind, trapping the protesters in an ever-tightening space that footage shows ultimately spanned about three car-lengths. 
Officers soon waded into the crowd, pepper-spraying, kicking, punching and swinging their batons. "People were being stampeded, they would try to get up and they'd get hit again," recalled Conrad Blackburn, a criminal defense lawyer who was there as a legal observer. "People were bleeding from their heads, with cuts all over their bodies. People couldn't breathe. They couldn't see."...


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