Harlem Crowds Protest Food Vendor Arrests, Subway Policing
A protest over the policing of New York City’s subways briefly shut down busy Harlem subway stations during rush hour, with many people placed in handcuffs amid the demonstrations.
Huge crowds of protesters converged Friday evening and marched on and near the major corridor of 125th Street, meeting at the corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard.
The demonstrators march for nearly two miles through Harlem, with some of the participants leaving buses and police vehicles vandalized with anti-police messages.
The New York Police Department tweeted around 7 p.m. that there were traffic and mass transit disruptions in the area.
A half-hour earlier, NYC Transit tweeted subways on the 4,5 and 6 lines were bypassing their Lexington Avenue-125th Street station for a time, then resumed stopping while police barred entry to the station for a while afterward.
The protesters are decrying what they consider heavy-handed law enforcement in the subways, which has led to the arrests of multiple food vendors and even police pulling their guns on a teenage fare-evasion suspect.
Two women selling churros in the subways were arrested earlier in November, and another man selling candy bars was arrested at a Harlem station.
Police spokesmen said they didn’t immediately have arrest information.
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