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BLM protesters march from LIC to Manhattan
BY JACOB KAYE
jkaye@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Marching on the same day as thousands
and thousands of demonstrators marched
in Washington, D.C. to commemorate
the 57th anniversary of the March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Black
Lives Matter activists made their way
from Long Island City to Times Square in
Manhattan on Friday, Aug. 28.
Th e Get Your Knee Off Our Necks
NYC march kicked off near NYCHA’s
Queensbridge Houses, just north of the
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.
Hitting the road around 6:30 p.m., demonstrators
began to march over the bridge
and stepped into Manhattan.
Holding signs reading “Black Lives
Matter” and “Defund the Police,” protesters
marched toward Columbus
Circle in Manhattan. From the midtown
Manhattan location, demonstrators
marched to Times Square, where the protest
ended.
While the march was peaceful, protesters
were, at one point, assailed from above
as a resident tossed water and a hard
object down from their apartment onto
the protesters below around 59th Street
in Manhattan.
No injuries were reported as a result of
the incident.
Photo by Dean Moses
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