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I’m outside the gates of Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, where a march is slated to start today ( https://www.facebook.com/events/louis-armstrong-park/mobilizing-millennials-march/781710202564915/). Folks gathering outside; Park itself—which has been open—is locked up today.
Spokeswoman for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell: City decided to close Armstrong Park + Congo Square today b/c events (including planned protests) looked like they’d violate coronavirus restrictions on crowd size.
A few hundred people here outside the locked gates of Louis Armstrong Park, which does exceed New Orleans’ current coronavirus emergency crowd restrictions.
Quoting MLK’s final speech at Juneteenth rally in New Orleans.
Now marching upriver on Rampart from Louis Armstrong Park to New Orleans City Hall.
Detouring around the Hard Rock Hotel collapse site, which has kept several surrounding blocks closed since the fatal disaster in October.
Chant outside New Orleans City Hall: “D-E-F-U-N-D. Defund, defund NOPD!”
And a new chant, at least to me: “One call, that’s all: To City Hall!” (Riffs on a personal injury lawyer’s ubiquitous advertising slogan).
