'The video shows four cops on top of me,' says City Council candidate Marti Gould Cummings. 'Blake says he saw me get hit on the head with a baton, which I guess I did, because the ER says I have a concussion.'
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So on Tuesday, we put out a call to action. We said we’re going to meet on 145th and Broadway, and people can march down or take the train down to Foley Square. There were, I’d estimate, over 100 people gathered at the train station. The cops saw the call to action online and they were waiting. That’s a problem in itself. Knowing that there’s a call to action for peaceful action, that’s enough to send six or seven cop cars? Give me a break.
They pulled our masks down and took our picture on the scene, outside the van. We’re zip-tied, so we can’t put our masks back on. There’s about 15 of us total, obviously not socially distanced. They put us in a van — two of them later reached out to me on social media. At first, the cops didn’t even know where they were taking us. That’s the thing — this is so unorganized. “Oh, we’re going to One Police Plaza.” “No, we’re going to go to Brooklyn.
Then they moved us to a different cell. There was a toilet there, but it was overflowing; there was pee all around it. We were all sharing stories of what was happening, how to organize the next protest.
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