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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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rb, the Sean Bell protests here the other day were designed to stop the city. They marched to the bridges and tunnels and prayed in front of traffic. If I was a bridge and tunnel person I would have been greatly annoyed by the extra traffic snarl they created. It would not have made me more sympathetic to their cause, but more aggravated since they impinged on my ability to get home.
I saw some of them march down Broadway a small clump of people, not many really. I realized what the shouting and chanting was because a police van was following them.
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N.Y. traffic blocked in protests over police acquittals in Bell killingSeveral hundred demonstrators disrupted New York City's afternoon rush hour with peaceful protests over the acquittal of three police officers in the 2006 shooting death of Sean Bell early on his wedding day.
Dozens were arrested, including Bell's fiancee, his mother and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who coordinated the demonstrations. Protesters blocked entrances to the Queensboro Bridge, the Triborough Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge and the Holland Tunnel and Queens-Midtown Tunnel. The The New York Times says the largest protest site appeared to be outside the New York City police headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
"This is to say that 'enough is enough,'" said New York State NAACP director Hazel Dukes, who led marchers to the Holland Tunnel, the New York Post reports. "We're here to continue to send the message to judges and lawyers that it's time to stop taking innocent people's lives."
The Daily News also has a report and photos.
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Days before that it was the May Day organized protests in Union Square walking down Broadway to Foley Square.
If it's not some group, it's the tourists.
While I do understand that there is something to be said for getting your voice and position heard, it's a little much when you live in the city and every inch is a fight every day.
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