City Hall was very crazy tonight. I'm not sure how else to describe it. A ton of arrests. The cops would not let up with the sporadic violence, and protesters refused to take it sitting down.

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All of this was under the pretext of protesters occupying the street (even though they had just marched across the Brooklyn Bridge road). Ppl would refuse to disperse, then cops would get violent, then ppl would gather again, then cops would tackle more, over and over.

The cops would escalate by targeting people seemingly at random. Like here they're backing up, but one cop points to a guy standing in the street, so a bunch of them book after him.

Note that all of this took place at the same location at which nyc protesters set up an encampment for several weeks this summer, which was the source of a lot of activist energy here. I heard a lot of ppl talking super sentimentally about the space tn. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/new-york-city-hall-encampment/

Also note that this happened two nights ago: https://twitter.com/nickybLA/status/1350660492054900737?s=19

And that protest was in response to this: https://twitter.com/protest_nyc/status/1349205582805413889?s=19

Oh yeah and the ny attorney general is suing the nypd for its brutal response to protests lol. https://twitter.com/WNYC/status/1349774547835359234?s=19

Takeaway from tonight: Folks seem even more fed up with the nypd than before, if that's even possible. And the nypd is ready to respond to that frustration with, of course, violence.

This was at a demonstration put on by black lives matter groups in new york city. Apparently I wasn't clear enough about that.