NYC VIBE: The Rioting & Looting Aftermath in the City

Monday, June 1, 2020 - New York City: Broken glass and graffiti lined the streets of Manhattan Monday morning, in the aftermath of the weekend’s mass protests. Streets that are normally associated with the upscale restaurants and luxury designer storefronts that occupy them, were instead reflective of the fury and discord that has consumed the nation in response to the murder of George Floyd.

George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, was killed in Minneapolis on May 25th during an arrest in which he was handcuffed face down on a city street while a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes, effectively strangling him to death. Onlookers captured video of the event which soon went viral on social media, inciting widespread rage over the monstrous injustice. Black Lives Matter protests have since broken out in cities all over the world, many of which have escalated in violence and public destruction.

NYC VIBE was on site witnessing the chaos in the streets - the protests in New York descended into mass looting on Sunday night, leading to hundreds of arrests by NYPD.