The NYPD is looking for six people wanted for trespass after demonstrators jumped onto subway tracks and blocked a train during a protest over Jordan Neely's death. LisaRoznerTV reports.
on Saturday. Video shows demonstrators held the doors open and stopped an F train at around 6 p.m. As police tried to intervene, others jumped onto the tracks. Read More:
Protesters flood subway station, jump on tracks to call for justice for Jordan Neely; multiple arrests made The MTA said a train carrying approximately 450 passengers had to stop and was unable to proceed into the station for about an hour. "Jumping on tracks is dangerous, reckless and can be life threatening. While peaceful protest has always been part of American fabric, endangering transit workers and other responders, while also delaying New Yorkers just trying to get where they need to go, by deliberately risking contact with an electrified third rail, is unacceptable," said NYC Transit President Richard Davey.
"NYC failed you" and"Justice for Jordan Neely" are some of the messages on a growing memorial outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station.
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