Protesters staged a demonstration to defund the police outside the fashion event attended by Mayor Bill de Blasio
, a flyer from the demonstration identified the protesters as an “autonomous group of NYC abolitionists who believe that policing does not protect and serve communities,” andidentified them as “#FireThemAll” protesters.
handcuffs. Later that night, protesters reportedly moved their demonstration to outside the NYPD’s 28th precinct, where some of their fellow demonstrators were still being detained as of around 9 p.m. local time. De Blasio was heavily criticized last summer amid mass protests for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, for implementing a citywide 8 p.m. curfew that exacerbated police violence against demonstrators. The outgoing mayor also notablywho drove into a throng of protesters with an SUV. “It’s inappropriate for protesters to surround a police vehicle and threaten police officers,” de Blasio said at the time. “That’s wrong on its face, and that hasn’t happened in the history of protest in NYC.
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