[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] From the depths of a federal jail on the Brooklyn waterfront, the sound reverberates: a polyrhythmic pounding like a hailstorm on the roof of a shed. With the jail on partial lockdown, inmates have been unable to use phones to call their loved ones, but their percussive banging could be clearly heard to those outside, and to the world beyond. The inmates bang anything they can — shoes, their fists — against any surface they meet: the walls and windows and bars of the jail that holds them. Sunday morning, when protesters unfurled a long paper banner across the street from the jail that said “You are heard you are loved,” the inmates banged their approval.

Source: New York Times February 03, 2019 23:43 UTC