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Calls have grown in recent days for New York City officials to end a curfew amid protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, as reports show police arresting essential workers alongside demonstrators.
The 8pm curfew has caused confusion and further disruption in the city, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio designating on-demand food delivery workers essential as some workers and industries have been labelled throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
In one incident captured on camera Thursday night, New York City police officers appeared to detain a food delivery worker shortly after 8pm.
The worker was filmed pleading with the cops as he was handcuffed near Central Park West and 109th Street, saying: Are you serious? Im working! Im working!
Several officers pulled the delivery man away as protestors shouted: Let him go!
A Facebook user by the name of Mo Gelber posted the footage online, noting how the mayor previously designated delivery workers essential and excluded from the curfew.
When another user commented on the post asking why he was not detained by the officers as well, Mr Gelber responded: I honestly never thought I would have to utter this phrase in my life. But I have white privilege.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/serious-im-working-cops-arrest-160208298.html
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(32,626 posts)Rayne Valentine, 32, told the Daily Beast he had been working at Kings County Hospital Centre since March, when the medical facilities required additional workers to cope with flood of new Covid-19 patients.
After leaving work at about 11:45pm, Mr Valentine had his headphones on and was walking back to his residence when he noticed a swarm of officers sprinting after a kid in this yellow and black hoodie, he told the news outlet.
I stayed out of the way, Mr Valentine continued. I was up against one of the closed shops just recording. I didnt say anything to antagonize them. I was walking backwards as they shouted back up. And then this cop pushed me, and there were other cops hitting me on my legs and stuff too, but my head is the only thing that got seriously injured.
He added: I dont know if its because they noticed my hospital ID or if its because they saw the blood, but they stopped, threw my phone at me, and I walked back to the hospital I was there for about seven hours after I got seven staples in my head and two CT scans.
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(9,998 posts)sakabatou
(42,159 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They behave like sharks when blood hits the water, it doesn't matter if there is no sane reason for them to act that way.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)So some of them are acting like assholes. Why? Because they can. And that attitude is why they're under scrutiny.
Me.
(35,454 posts)and you wanted to be president