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   Wayne "Rudy" LaPierre <"Reckless Dumb Loon"@.us> wrote:   
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   > There is a need for education to eliminate homosexual pedophiles.   
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   NYPD officers arrested and pepper sprayed protesters at the   
   Queer Liberation March Sunday afternoon while attempting to   
   arrest two people for graffiti, according to witnesses.   
      
   Numerous videos shared on social media show a crowd of officers   
   shoving outraged protesters where arrests were being made near   
   Washington Square Park.   
      
   As two were being arrested for graffiti, protesters intervened   
   in an attempt to free them, at which point police responded with   
   pepper spray, multiple witnesses told Gothamist. A legal   
   observer said at least four people were arrested and 10 others   
   pepper sprayed—including someone running a fruit stand nearby   
   protesters.   
      
   Speakers at the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives Matter   
   told protesters they got word that officers were pepper spraying   
   people nearby after marching from Lower Manhattan to Stonewall   
   Inn and ending with a rally at Washington Square Park. NYPD   
   helicopters circled above during the march.   
      
   "The NYPD is going ballistic," said a witness livestreaming on   
   Facebook. "The situation was at a point where this was almost   
   Stonewall 2," the narrator added, referencing the uprising at   
   Stonewall Inn in 1969 nearby Sunday's protest on the weekend of   
   Pride and 51st anniversary of the uprising.   
      
   "There was an excessive amount of police once the march got   
   here," the livestreamer said.   
      
   Witnesses described a dance party before arrests began—a   
   celebration and march led by the Reclaim Pride Coalition.   
      
   "We were dancing right in front of the arch on 5th ave and out   
   of nowhere, cops started storming into the crowd," Mike Perles,   
   a 29-year-old city employee, told us. "They pushed everyone in   
   front of them out of the way and onto the ground. They pushed a   
   reporter who was taking photos down and started randomly pepper   
   spraying people. I couldn't see anyone instigating. It seemed   
   like they felt out numbered after entering a huge group and   
   panicked and started beating people up."   
      
   "gay" is a personal choice.   
      
   Don't make bad choices.   
      
   https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-officers-arrest-and-pepper-spray-   
   queer-liberation-march-protesters   
      
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