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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade descends into chaos as cops arrest anti-Israel protesters (www.themirror.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/world@quokk.au

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The protesters were arrested after they blocked the parade route for the second year running Thursday.

Officers with the NYPD swarmed the scene and arrested the protesters in order to get the parade back on track.

During one video the person holding the banner scuffling with cops before they were thrown onto the ground and handcuffed.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Why can't these Palestine genocide protestors let us have our Indigenous People genocide celebration parade in peace

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*anti-genocide protestors

The mirror is a tabloid rag

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading this is dystopian as fuck:

the parade got underway again and the beloved Ronald McDonald float passed to many cheers with the balloon line leader telling the audience, “Ronald McDonald, everybody!”

[–] StannisDMannis@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago

Don't catch you slippin' now

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Disgruntled Trump supporters denied float in Macy's parade.