Dozens of people were arrested in New York during demonstrations in Manhattan in rejection of the Donald Trump administration and in which they asked for the counting all the votes of the presidential elections.
At around 8:00 p.m. local time, the protesters walked the streets surrounding the park Washington Square Park, in the southwest area of the Big Apple, shouting “No Trump, No KKK (Ku Klux Klan), No Facist USA” and “There is no justice, there is no peace. Damn racist policeman”, when the agents, mounted on bicycles, arrested several of them for being occupying the road.
After a large part of the group dispersed, about fifty riot police cornered the protesters at the height of West 8 Street and Fifth Avenue, where they began to charge against them and began arrests of citizens, who were participating in a peaceful protest .
“Shame on You, The World is Watching” (You should be ashamed, the world is watching you), they chanted shortly before being arrested.
There were also tense moments when other protesters they burned several garbage bags piled up in the streets, which firefighters came to quickly put out
Meanwhile, another protest marched through the avenues of central Manhattan, flanked by agents, where slogans were proclaimed against “the whole system.” “It is not about who is in the Presidency,” said one of the protesters, who covered half his face with a black scarf and did not want to identify himself.
The arrests come after New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea warned Tuesday of a “zero tolerance” policy for violent acts after the presidential elections.
“To all New Yorkers: there is a multitude of police in the streets, and there is going to be zero tolerance (in the face of eventual riots),” Shea said in statements to the media. “I cannot be clearer, zero tolerance,” insisted the senior security force.
In the early afternoon, hundreds more gathered on the steps of the central New York Library on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to denounce Trump’s attempts to curb scrutiny in two key states.
Among the lions that guard the doors of the centennial building, labor, immigrant and political organizations gathered to show their rejection of the request of Trump’s electoral team to recount the votes in the state of Wisconsin and the threats to request in court the count stoppage in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
While New York security forces remain vigilant, this Monday, on the eve of the elections, a large number of businesses in the city center, especially on Fifth Avenue and around Times Square, shielded themselves from possible riots and looting like those that took place in late May and early June after the death at the hands of a George Floyd agent in Minnesota.
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden adds 264 delegates to the Electoral College and is one step away from achieving the 270 delegates who give the keys to the White House, compared to the 214 that Trump accumulates.
The path to the White House for the Democrat is to conquer at least one of the four key states that remain at stake: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Nevada.
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