3:53 a.m. I just got release from arrest.
It all began on The Stonewall.
Hundreds of people gathered there to demand justice for Black Trans People, and also it was the beginning to the greatest march happened so far in New York protesting against police brutality and the corrupted political system.
The goal: Defy De Blasio’s curfew.
After 5 pm, the crowd began moving up seven Ave. to 14th street.
When we got to Union Square the march looked like thousands.
We march down Broadway to City Hall. It was bout 7p.m.
From there clusters of cops started following the march.
We shout at them and speak to them out loud asking for justice and respect for us, the people they are supposed to serve, and not to the De Blasio on duty at the city hall, neither the mob in the New York police pyramid and its union.
Taking both ways of West Side Highway, the crowd started counting the last seconds to 8 p.m: Time for De Blasio’s curfew.
At 8:10 p.m. policemen ran towards the crowd raising their batons. About seven policemen threw to the floor and beat up with their sticks someone I couldn't identify.
When I tried to film, cops jumped on me and threw me on the ground.
Hands tied with plastic zips, we sat for an hour on the west side highway while NYPDs distributed those arrested in patrols and correctional buses. I was on a bus with 18 other people, men and women, heading to a police precinct downtown Brooklyn.
A young woman cried and screamed when her zipcuffed left hand went pale. Nobody cared. Only until his hand turned purple and we all started asking for help, a policeman decided to go inside and cut the plastics cuffs.
We were there till 3:30 a.m.
There were at least 100 people lined up.
They put 18 of us in a jail no larger than 7 by 15 feet wide for almost one hour. Pictures, and to another -bigger- cell, until I was released.
A police officer spoke to me for a while complaining about how they are mistreat for superiors. “We are just pawns here. You feel mistreat it? We don’t count (he’s referring to all cops whose mission is arresting us on the streets). They decide whatever they want with us. We have families. At the end it’s all about money”.
He talked to me and two other guys arrested with me.
The police I am talking about was not my arrest officer. I must leave this clear before the NYPD cuts off the head of officer Acevedo, who I express my gratitude for the way he behaves with me and Camila. His behavior showed that there could be a law enforcement agency to work for their own neighborhoods.
No masks, no social distancing.
This Brooklyn precinct is hell with dirty and stinky cells.
I just read the fake news on The New York Times where De Blasio reports a “very calm situation”. He doesn’t even listen to his own police officers disgusted by the mistreatment they are subject to, and now, launching all minority policemen to smash their own people.
We have to be in court on September 30th.
NC
New York, June 3rd 2020
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