The irony of the incident was not lost on many in the crowd - cops arresting gay people in front of the Stonewall Inn, the very place where homophobic police brutality sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement nearly five decades years prior. Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images file Protesters from No Justice No Pride movement blocked the NYPD and Toronto police contingents during the 2017 New York City Pride March. Twelve protesters affiliated with the group No Justice No Pride were arrested, and after a brief delay, the march continued. Just before members of the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) marched past the Stonewall Inn, the finish line of last year’s New York City Pride March, a small group of activists slipped past the barriers and chained their hands together to prevent the officers from passing, a protest technique called a “lockdown.”ĭozens of cops working security at the march surrounded the protesters, and, over shouts of “ f-k the police” and “ racist, sexist, anti-gay, NYPD, KKK,” began to break through what appeared to be chains and rubber tubes the protesters had used to lock themselves together.
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