I didn’t join them on the front lines due to slow Covid-19 recovery I hadn’t left my apartment for months. Night after night my friends masked-up and staved off burnout to stand toe-to-toe against a phalanx of interconnected and toxic injustices – including but not limited to systemic racism, white supremacy, police violence and brutality, the carceral state, disaster capitalism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and Donald Trump. My friends were among the thousands marching to honor Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless other Black victims of police-sanctioned violence and murder.
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I wondered how to get home from Brooklyn to the Bronx without being arrested again – the subway was closed until 5AM and by being outside I was currently breaking curfew.” I was held for more than six hours during which no one knew where I was or if I was alive. There were dozens of messages from family and friends on my phone.
As we left we passed a group of eight officers at the exit who jeered and made fun of us. I was released after being issued a summons for violating curfew, even though we were detained earlier than the 11PM start time. Forget social distancing we couldn’t stand more than three inches apart. Ten of us waited in a 4’ by 8’ holding cell for hours. They flexcuffed us and put us in the van and instead of taking us to holding a few blocks away they drove us across the Brooklyn Bridge into Brooklyn. They tackled one of us and braced the rest of us against the wall. They cut us off and at least 20 officers jumped out. On our way to the subway five of us were followed by six cop cars and a NYPD van. At 10PM we got word the cops were going to deploy sound cannons so we decided to leave. “At noon we marched north from Stonewall to Herald Square, then back south to One World Trade Center and west to the Brooklyn Bridge. Three months later as protesters marched nightly through New York City’s blocks and boroughs, I temporarily lost my passion for board games. In March 2020 as New York City entered lockdown I temporarily lost my sense of taste due to Covid-19.
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