By early Sunday, 345 protesters had been arrested and 47 police cars had been damaged or destroyed, as demonstrators angry over the death of George Floyd clashed with officers and looted stores.
Protesters in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Credit…Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
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Thousands of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd took to the streets of New York City for a third day on Saturday, blocking traffic, setting fire to police vehicles and clashing with officers at simultaneous marches that raged through all five boroughs.
By early Sunday morning, more than 345 people had been arrested, 33 officers had been injured and 47 police vehicles had been damaged or destroyed, several of them set on fire, the police said. More than a dozen stores in Lower Manhattan were also looted.
Through much of the afternoon until well after dark, crowds of protesters holding signs and chanting slogans made their way through Harlem, the East Village, Times Square, Columbus Circle, Jackson Heights in Queens, the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and portions of the Bronx and Staten Island, sometimes seeming to move independently but at other moments appearing to break apart, come together and re-splinter in a way that tested the ability of the police to maintain control.
Many of the actions were peaceful, with demonstrators waving burning sage at the police or shouting Mr. Floyd’s name to mourn his death last Monday at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. “I’m not here to fight someone,” said Eldon Gillet, 40, who was on the streets in Brooklyn. “I’m here to fight a system.”
Thousands of people gathered across the city over the weekend at protests prompted by the death of George Floyd, who died last week after a police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
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