Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, 3 Members of Congress Cuffed at Protest Outside Trump Tower



By Erin Durkin

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and three members of Congress were arrested protesting outside Trump Tower Tuesday for protections for young immigrants threatened by an order from President Trump.

Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Mark-Viverito were among about 10 people who sat down in the street on Fifth Ave. near the tower, and got cuffed after refusing to move.

“We are here to defend our immigrant communities,” Mark-Viverito said before the arrest, in which her hands were secured in plastic cuffs and she was loaded into a Department of Correction bus with other protesters.

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report) 

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