A largely peaceful night, as marches continue well after curfew. Protest marches against racism and police brutality continued in New York City well past 11 p.m. on Saturday, defying an 8 p.m. curfew but allowed to continue peacefully by the police, who had moved aggressively to stop protests after curfew on recent nights. The biggest march of the night, which began at Barclays Center as curfew fell, with well over 1,000 people, made a jubilant 8-mile loop through the center of Brooklyn. “We’re in our neighborhood!” Courtney Taylor, an organizer, yelled into a megaphone as the procession turned onto Church Avenue in Flatbush, a heavily African-American and Caribbean area. “This whole neighborhood, they got us!” The Brooklyn protest took one last knee and observed a minute of silence back at Barclays Center before dispersing with a loud cheer shortly after 11:30 p.m.

Source: New York Times June 06, 2020 22:19 UTC