People are taking police brutality very seriously after the recent sequence of events. On Tuesday night, hundreds of protesters assembled in New York City to march against police brutality.
This march had been organized to Stop Murder by Police by The National Actions Network, a non-profit, civil rights organization. Numerous protestors had been citing the deaths of Walter Scott of South Carolina and Eric Garner in Staten Island.
The march of these protesters started from Manhattan’s Union Square and across the Brooklyn Bridge, to some extent blocking the traffic. During the march it was seen that a lot of people were being arrested. Early on Wednesday, the police said that the information on the number of arrests was not available.
According to the police, an off-duty police officer had been driving home and while crossing the bridge, had been assaulted by 2 protestors when he had stepped out of his vehicle for investigating. The police then stated that the suspects ran off after he had informed them he was a police officer. He had been hospitalized due to his injuries to his face and arm.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has released a statement expressing his disapproval of such violence against the police force.
Just last year, 2 officers had been assaulted on the bridge in the course of a protest over Garner’s chokehold death. The video showed that 7 people had pushed, kicked and punched the two officers at the scene. That assault ultimately resulted in the arrest of 5 people who were involved in the activity.
According to the organizers, the protest held in New York on Tuesday had been one of the twenty-eight that had been held all across the nation.
15 people had been charged with disorderly conduct and for resisting arrest after blocking traffic at a major intersection and therefore been arrested by the police in Springfield, Massachusetts.
