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Gothamist reports growing tensions since this weekend ..

Over the course of four hours, people from Kimani’s neighborhood mixed with activists from other parts of NYC, [] numbering in the hundreds at the protest’s peak .. Some demonstrators threw bottles at groups of officers, pieces of rock or stone at vehicles, and there were other reports of a few bricks being thrown. One marcher threw something at a police van window that caused it to shatter .. One particularly tense stand-off between a female demonstrator and a male police officer began with the cop telling her to get on the sidewalk, and her responding, “Or what, you’ll shoot me?”

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