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Occupy City Hall
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New York, New York
July 15, 2020
Occupy City Hall is an activist encampment outside New York City’s. City Hall and the last wave of the city’s George Floyd protests. It’s an innovative political space that attracted peaceful crowds to speeches and teach-ins focused on a narrow goal: cutting $1 billion from the New York Police Department’s budget.
Volunteers flocked to the park, dropping off food, coffee and supplies to build a kind of campground. However, the number of protesters has dropped sharply.
Passers-by and journalists have been harassed. Local residents — even those who say they support the camp’s politics — have complained that it has turned into a disorderly shantytown where violence has occurred. Several medics who had been there from the start announced this week that they were leaving, citing “a lack of safety” in a statement.
July 15, 2020
Occupy City Hall is an activist encampment outside New York City’s. City Hall and the last wave of the city’s George Floyd protests. It’s an innovative political space that attracted peaceful crowds to speeches and teach-ins focused on a narrow goal: cutting $1 billion from the New York Police Department’s budget.
Volunteers flocked to the park, dropping off food, coffee and supplies to build a kind of campground. However, the number of protesters has dropped sharply.
Passers-by and journalists have been harassed. Local residents — even those who say they support the camp’s politics — have complained that it has turned into a disorderly shantytown where violence has occurred. Several medics who had been there from the start announced this week that they were leaving, citing “a lack of safety” in a statement.
