thank you so much. and as you can understand. i want to spend more time with you. because of the breaking news we need to got to this. i understand. our thoughts are with the family. if we can get you back. we will. thank you so much. okay. thank you. thank you. want to get back to brooke baldwin in china town in manhattan. brook spechlt. what have you got? we just, we have been walking with this group, don, for at least sex hours. this group, young, men, women, old, black, hispanic. a diverse group. started six hours age where we ended uh. where the group has stopped has been on the brooklyn side of the manhattan bridge. where they have just come back from brooklyn. hadn t seen a single arrest all night. we have been walking for six hours.
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ranks and let everyone go back on. the protesters walking across to the brooklyn side, are they blocking all traffic in that direction? just a moment ago they stopped and sat down on the bridge. we re actually on the pedestrian part of it. so we re not blocking traffic as of yet. the cops had stopped. the traffic that wants to get on to the bridge. there is some coming from brooklyn into manhattan. okay. so a good part of it is shut down at this point. in term of the character of the protests that you re in, you were with some other protest groups including the group, among the group blocking the west side highway tonight. what would you describe as the, sort of the character of the protest? the vibe and how they are relating to police? well, generally, it has been pretty copasetic. there has been some side
the minute that it gets a little bit heated, they tend to let them move on. what i found interesting is a lot of the people i ve spoken to said tonight was the first night they came out, despite the fact that there has been ongoing protests in new york. interesting. i think that for some new yorkers, this particular one struck a chord, and new people came out. i understand. kate osborn reporting for us. from out on the streets among protesters who right now are crossing the brooklyn bridge from manhattan toward the brooklyn side. thanks very much. we ll be back in touch. it s interesting the way that these protests have unfolded. even if you just look specifically at new york city, specifically at new york city, you start to get a handle on where they are and what they re doing. you see a large mass of protesters like we just did on the brooklyn britain or outside rockefeller central in one place. then you realize it is not just one protest. there are significant knots of people
from the manhattan side to the brooklyn side, are they blocking all traffic in that direction? just a moment ago they stopped and sat down on the bridge. we re actually on the pedestrian part of it. so we re not blocking traffic as of yet. the cops had stopped the traffic that wants to get on to the bridge, but there is some coming from brooklyn into manhattan. okay. so a good part of it is shut down at this point. in terms of the character of the protests that you re in, you were with some other protest groups including the group, among the group blocking the west side highway tonight. what would you describe as the, sort of the character of the protest? the vibe and how they are relating to police? well, generally, it has been pretty copaesthetic. there has been some side arguments. personally i ve seen at least a dozen arrests and attempts to cordon them into certain areas.
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