Arriving at Washington Square around 6:30 on Monday, June 1st, I fell in line with a massive mobilization of Black Lives Matter protesters and began to march north toward Times Square.
Day four of demonstrations in New York City, and the police presence was even heavier. Tensions were more palpable. The protesters were angrier. NYPD’s intimidation of peaceful demonstrators and their deliberate escalation to excessive force had been captured on video and distributed on Facebook and Twitter each of the previous three nights, and those marching alongside me knew they were at risk of being tear-gassed, beaten with batons, and violently arrested simply by walking out onto the street that evening.
Mark Prowse 