Workers swept up broken glass outside New York City luxury stores Monday after a night of destruction followed another day of protests against police brutality following George Floyd's death.
Workers boarded up a Chanel store in Soho, one of many in the historic district known for cobblestone streets and cast iron buildings where people smashed windows and grabbed merchandise overnight.
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Workers swept up broken glass outside New York City luxury stores Monday after a night of destruction followed another day of protests against police brutality following George Floyd's death.
A 21-year-old man was shot in the neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. and was taken to a hospital, police said. They said his injuries were not life-threatening.
There were gestures from police officers earlier Sunday intended to show sympathy with marchers. Some officers knelt with protesters in an intersection as an organizer called out the names of people killed by police.
Similar protests have flared up around the nation in response to Floyd's death and other recent racially charged killings.
“We could impose a curfew today,” he said. “The problem is, people need to listen to a curfew and that’s not going to happen. If people think it will, they don’t understand what’s going on.”
“There were hundreds and hundreds of arrests in a very short time in that area,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said on NBC's “Today.”
The windows of a Chanel store are broken Monday, June 1, 2020, following protests in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. Protests were held throughout the country over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (AP PhotoMark Lennihan)
A 21-year-old man was shot in the neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. and was taken to a hospital, police said. They said his injuries were not life-threatening.
Mobs of people rampaged down the sidewalks in Soho and other neighborhoods including Union Square, breaking into Rolex, Kate Spade and Prada boutiques as well as electronics stores.
For the third day in a row, protests across New York City over the May 25 death of Floyd — a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck — were largely peaceful during the daylight hours Sunday but turned violent at night. “ When it got dark, it got ugly and it got ugly quick,” Shea said.
People carry things out of a smoke shop through a broken window in New York, Monday, June 1, 2020. Demonstrators took to the streets of New York City to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP PhotoSeth Wenig)
There were gestures from police officers earlier Sunday intended to show sympathy with marchers. Some officers knelt with protesters in an intersection as an organizer called out the names of people killed by police.
But the police department has come under criticism for other interactions with demonstrators over the weekend including a confrontation in Brooklyn on Saturday when two police vehicles appeared to plow through a group of protesters.
Shea said the confrontation is one of “about six" that the department’s internal affairs bureau is investigating.
Police hold off protesters during a solidarity rally for George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Protests were held throughout the city over the death of Floyd, a black man in police custody in Minneapolis who died after being restrained by police officers on Memorial Day. (AP PhotoWong Maye-E)
Similar protests have flared up around the nation in response to Floyd's death and other recent racially charged killings.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has rejected the idea of a curfew like those adopted in several other major cities.
Shea said he didn't think curfew would work.
People run out of a smoke shop with smoking instruments after breaking in as police arrive on Monday, June 1, 2020, in New York. Protests were held throughout the city over the death of George Floyd, a black man in police custody in Minneapolis who died after being restrained by police officers on Memorial Day. (AP PhotoWong Maye-E)
“We could impose a curfew today,” he said. “The problem is, people need to listen to a curfew and that’s not going to happen. If people think it will, they don’t understand what’s going on.”
Protesters start fires along the SoHo shopping district on Sunday, May 31, 2020, in New York. Protests were held throughout the city over the death of George Floyd, a black man in police custody in Minneapolis who died after being restrained by police officers on Memorial Day. (AP PhotoWong Maye-E)