ADADPaul Prestia, the women’s attorney, said Strudwick and Geurts “were well within their rights to peacefully protest” that night. “However, the audacity of these police officers to impose their force on them was not right.”An NYPD spokeswoman, Sgt. To date, more than 750 complaints stemming from the protests have been filed against the NYPD, according to New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. ADAD“When people don’t think there’s going to be justice, how is there going to be trust?” the mayor said Wednesday​. ADVideo taken by Strudwick before her arrest shows her defying firm orders by an NYPD supervisor to “get back” and clear the area.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2020 11:00 UTC