00:00What was the atmosphere like last night in Union Square?
00:07I can start with you, Sid.
00:08It was very tense.
00:10To be quite honest, I went there and I think everyone went there with a very peaceful mindset.
00:14We wanted to be able to go there and mourn for the lives that have been lost.
00:18And honestly, to not be able to do that is very disheartening.
00:23And again, they met us with violence.
00:25We came there peacefully, they met us with violence,
00:27and it just ensued in that manner the entire time.
00:29Did you feel that tension, the situation escalate rather rapidly?
00:33Yeah, absolutely.
00:36I hadn't even made it a block before I was arrested.
00:40I got out this morning and etc.
00:43But it escalated really fast and I really wish it hadn't gone that way.
00:48We in New York and across the nation, of course,
00:53have been organizing and marching and rallying for several months.
00:57And I have to say that yesterday, last night was probably the most tense and disgusting that I've ever seen the New York Police Department.
01:04There were kids out there and we were simply marching and chanting and asking to be recognized, right?
01:10And to live a full life.
01:12And they were pushing kids and they were shoving elderly brothers into a police van.
01:18And I heard that it was mace.
01:20And just so much animosity and violence to people who were just simply having a right to protest.
01:25It was incredible.
01:27It's exercising a right that was established by our own land, quite frankly.
01:30Umara?
01:31Yes, it was definitely very intense and it was definitely the first time that I can say I was actually scared because it just became so frantic.
01:40Because the police were literally attacking us, like charging at people in full on riot gear.
01:45And it's like, why are you scared of people with posters and boards?
01:49Like, what is really happening here?
01:51And it was just very, it was like they were, it was like we were in a war zone.
01:56It felt like a war zone, honestly, with the police just completely attacking people.
02:00People are crying coming up to me because their kids are getting grabbed.
02:04It was crazy.
02:06My Š½Š°Ń arm on facet.
02:07Um, I think that's how it was warriors.
02:08So really ė“-
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