New York: Just four days after the on-duty murder of a hero NYPD street cop, a rally in Washington Square Park against “police terror” devolved Saturday turned harsh, law-enforcement gripe-fest.
The protesters of the rally were holding signs which read “Rise Up! Stop Police Terror!” and “Murder with a badge is still murder.”
Around 300 protesters participated in the rally with slogans “No racist police!” , “Rise Up October” chanted, before the rally spilled out of the park and up Fifth Avenue to Times Square.
The NYPD arrested 11 protesters, charging most of them with disorderly conduct, obstructing vehicular traffic and failing to move. At least one was charged with resisting arrest.
Film maker Quentin Tarantino fired up the crowd by complaining that cops are too violent and are turning out “murderers.”
“When I see murders, I do not stand by . i have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers,” the “Pulp Fiction” auteur blathered to a cheering rally-goers.
