Report: NYPD Floyd Protest Handling Violated ‘Human Rights’
1st October 2020
An NYPD curfew crackdown on protesters in the Bronx in June violated “international human rights” and was maybe the department’s “most aggressive and abusive responses” to demonstrations in response to the death of George Floyd, according to a new report from the Human Rights Watch.
NYPD officers in the Bronx closed in more than 300 protesters using a technique known as “kettling” until the 8 p.m. ET curfew came and went June 4. After the curfew expired, the police began “whaling their batons, beating people from car tops, shoving them down to the ground, and firing pepper spray in their faces,” according to the Human Rights Watch report.