#NYC protesters vow to keep marching past curfew on 10th night of unrest

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A protester is being arrested around E. 136th St and Brown Place in The Bronx after the 8 p.m. curfew last night.
Stefan Jeremiah

New York City braced for its 10th straight night of protests Friday, with rallies planned throughout the city despite a steady rain and a looming 8 p.m. curfew.

By sunset, a group of more than 1,000 soggy protesters were already marching past dozens of cops stationed on Court Street and onto Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

The group had just left a rally at Borough Hall, at which protesters chanted the name of dead Minneapolis police-brutality victim George Floyd — and speakers urged curfew defiance.

“For those who are going to protest after curfew, I’m with you!” one speaker yelled, raising his fist in the air to cheers and applause.

Others shouted, “All lives can’t matter until black lives matter!”

In Manhattan, at least a thousand more people gathered at Washington Square Park. Many of them sounded ready for the long haul.

A poster advertising the park protest showed a pink pig wearing a t-shirt reading, “F–k YR CURFEW.”

Georgia Quinlan, 23, of Weehawken, NJ, one of the protesters leaving that rally, said she would march for as long into the night as the police would allow.

She was willing to get arrested if it came to that, she said.

“I know there’s been a lot of police brutality on previous nights,” she said.

“One of my friends almost got his jaw broken by a billy club two nights ago, then had to spend the night in a cell. That’s the price you pay for speaking your truth, unfortunately.

So I’m really hoping that the cops just leave us alone, keep their hostility in check,” she said.

“This is a peaceful protest. We’re not violent people, and the last thing we want is to be perceived that way,” she said.

“If you’re gonna arrest us for marching, just be aware that you’re the aggressors, not us.”