'There's plenty to learn from Flatbush: in particular, the finer points of protesting during a pandemic.' Inside the protests of Brooklyn's historically black neighborhood.
on Saturday night, "If those protestors had just gotten out of the way, we wouldn't be talking about this situation.”) New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was on site at Albemarle and Bedford, fighting to keep the peace—even, at times, putting his body between police officers and black protestors.
It's unclear what the coming days and weeks will look like for New York and protesting cities around the world, but for now, there's plenty to learn from Flatbush: in particular, the finer points of protesting during a pandemic. At one point early on Saturday afternoon, the crowd began an earnest chant of "Where are your masks?" at officers, with one protestor pulling fistfuls of medical masks out of her backpack.
Others, like a father-daughter pair selling hand sanitizer and masks on Flatbush Avenue, appeared to have accurately gauged the needs of a community who could not—unlike the mostly white New York parkgoers who
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