Protests Planned Across NYC For 10th Straight Day

NEW YORK, NY — Dozens of vigils, rallies, marches and protests are planned across the five boroughs Saturday as New York City takes to the streets for the tenth straight day to protest police brutality and systemic racism since the police killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd.

Protests will take place throughout the day — some beginning in the morning and others closer to the city's controversial 8 p.m. curfew — at places such as city landmarks, schools and parks, according to organizers.

New Yorkers can find an aggregated list of Saturday's planned protests here.

In recent nights police have begun taking aggressive action against groups of protesters who stay out past the city's 8 p.m. curfew. Police have employed the tactic of "kettling" large groups — surrounding protesters on all sides and pushing protesters into a line of heavily-armored police.

Friday night protests resulted in arrests on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn and Park Avenue on the Upper East Side, according to reporters covering the protests such as Gothamist's Sydney Pereira and the New York Post's Olivia Bensimon.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo jointly instituted the city's curfew on Monday in response to the looting of businesses in retail districts such as SoHo and Midtown Manhattan's Herald Square. City and police have praised the curfew as successful in stopping looters, but many elected officials have called the policy an excuse to give the NYPD free rein to crack down on peaceful protest.