July 2020. A protest encampment outside New York City’s City Hall was dispersed early Wednesday morning by New York Police Department officers in riot gear, according to the NYPD. Several hundred officers dispersed the remaining protesters after a nearly month-long encampment that started with protesters demanding that the NYPD be defunded, NYPD Commissioner of Operations Ray Spinella said in a press conference Wednesday. Facing pressure from thousands of constituents, New York City did ultimately slash $1 Billion from the police budget about a week into the protest encampment. The approved budget reallocated some duties and millions of dollars in associated funding from the NYPD to the Department of Education, the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and the Department of Homeless Services.
Jul 2020. BLM Protests in New York
