UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Whereas many eyes have been on the outlandish outfits sported by celebrities at Monday night’s Met Gala, intense protests towards police brutality resulted in at the very least 9 arrests exterior the museum, police stated.
The protests, which started Monday afternoon in Decrease Manhattan, moved uptown by round 6 p.m. Protesters’ demands included defunding and finally abolishing the NYPD, in addition to ending the relocations of homeless people from lodges into shelters.
Video recorded by unbiased reporters on the scene confirmed protesters dismantling the barricades that police had arrange exterior the Fifth Avenue museum. Police then moved in on the protesters, pushing them farther from the museum, earlier than tackling and arresting a number of on the road, movies present.
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The 9 folks have been taken into custody close to Fifth Avenue and East 81st Avenue, in accordance with an NYPD spokesperson, who didn’t say whether or not any have been charged with against the law.
A few of the arrestees have been reportedly taken to Harlem’s twenty eighth Precinct Monday evening, although some have been later launched.
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