‘You are profiting off our pain’: New Yorker screams at rioters to stop ‘taking down neighborhoods where people live in public housing’
- The unidentified woman was filmed addressing the crowds on Saturday
- ‘You don’t see corporations here. There are human beings that live in this goddamn neighborhood’, she tells the looters, standing amid the carnage
- She tells the rioters to be ‘responsible’ and ‘have a plan’ and use their vote
- Protesters have taken to the streets across the US over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who was died in police custody in Minneapolis
- Overnight Monday nonviolent demonstrations were punctuated by people smashing storefront windows and breaching shop doors in Midtown Manhattan
This is the moment a New York woman blasts rioters in a powerful speech standing amid the devastation from looting in her neighborhood.
In the clip, taken Saturday, the unidentified New Yorker tells the looters to stop ‘taking down’ neighborhoods ‘where there are no corporations and people live in public housing’.
She addressed the crowd in the wake of peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who was killed in Minneapolis on Memorial Day when a white police officer knelt on his neck.
Addressing the looters, the woman said: ‘These are f****** people who live in public housing and you just made a f****** melee. You took down bus routes. There are people who live in this neighborhood who have to go back uptown to work, and you are here profiting off of our f****** pain.’
The unidentified woman was filmed addressing the crowds on Saturday
‘You don’t see corporations here. There are human beings that live in this goddamn neighborhood’, she tells the looters, standing amid the carnage
For nearly a week since Floyd’s death, largely peaceful protests by day have turned to chaos at night.
Overnight Monday nonviolent demonstrations were punctuated by people smashing storefront windows near Rockefeller Center and breaching the doors into the storied Macy’s store on 34th Street, littering parts of Manhattan with broken glass.
Amid the carnage Saturday the woman added: ‘You think about what it’s like to be a black woman in this f****** neighborhood who lives with people in public housing who now has f****** s*** to walk through.’
Telling the crowd to be ‘responsible’ and ‘have a plan’, she added: ‘You can protest all you want but the s*** I just saw take place.’
Addressing the destruction of public charging points she said: ‘I know there are people out here, homeless people who rely on those banks to charge their phones.
‘And you think it’s okay to take down a neighborhood. You don’t see corporations here. There are human beings that live in this goddamn neighborhood.’
Urging the looters to vote she said: ‘I gave my f****** sweat, blood, and tears for this country. I served this country for ten goddamn years.’
The footage was taken by Dan Ladue, who told Insider: ‘I filmed the wreckage walking down the street and at one point I’m on the right side of the street and I hear someone over on the left side, and it’s just this woman yelling extremely passionately.’
Crowds of looters overran Manhattan’s Midtown prompting officials to crack down further on the chaos and move the city’s 11pm curfew to 8pm.
New York City’s 11pm curfew was announced yesterday afternoon by Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. It is the first time the city has imposed a curfew since the 1940s but it did little to stop the looters.
The looters smashed the store fronts of designers like Coach and Balenciaga but were also seen ransacking Duane Reades and independently owned smoke shops as they snatched all they could before being rounded up by NYPD cops.
A man could be seen running out of Paul & Shark clutching piles of clothing. Smashed glass covered the floor after the storefront was smashed
Shockingly, the Lego Store was another shop hit by looters. One person could be seen running out with large boxes last night
Looters ransacked Manhattan’s designer stores overnight as New York City’s 11pm curfew failed to stop people smashing windows and running off with hundreds of dollars of merchandise. Pictured: Looters raid a Balenciaga store in Manhattan last night
Flagship Macy’s department store was also targeted despite having been boarded up. Pictured: The store bordered up
They pillaged stores on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue more than an hour before the 11pm curfew began. Further uptown, violence broke out in the Bronx where an NYPD officer was run over and others were beaten in the street.
President Donald Trump vowed to deploy the military to ‘dominate the streets’ of America and federal forces followed his lead, aggressively clearing a Washington park of protesters with tear gas so he could walk to a church and pose with a Bible.
Across the nation, cities were engulfed in more violence and destruction.
More than 5,600 people nationwide have been arrested over the past week for such offenses as stealing, blocking highways and breaking curfew