George Floyd protests in New York (state)
There have been a series of protests in New York following the murder of George Floyd. List of protests in New York. New York City. Nearly 100 protesters assembled in Union Square on May 28; in addition, 72 protesters were arrested and several police officers were lightly injured. Protesters marched to City Hall and shut down traffic in Lower Manhattan. The following day, May 29, peaceful protests resumed around Foley Square in Manhattan, but later protesters clashed with police at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and demolished two police vehicles in the Fort Greene  neighborhood. Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and announced an independent review, done by Attorney General Letitia James, of actions taken during the protests that occurred on May 29. In Brooklyn, a video of a crowd of protesters clashing with two NYPD vehicles that appeared to accelerate and push a number of people was released. In the borough of Staten Island, Reverend Al Sharpton, Gwen Carr—the mother of Eric Garner, who was killed in 2014 from being chokeholded by police—and other community activists held a vigil for George Floyd on May 30 . On June 1, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio declared an 11 pm curfew for New York City, to last until 5 a.m. the next morning, the first since the Harlem riot of 1943, which followed a white police officer shooting an African American soldier. The next day, a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. was announced, until June 7. Western New York. 20-year-old Courtland Renford threw a green basket with a box on fire inside a City Hall tax office. Mayor Byron Brown condemned the violence and called Renford an 'idiot'. The following day, on May  31, another curfew was issued effective from 9:00PM until 6:00AM. Various degrees of protesting and rioting continued the following days, causing a curfew to be issued for only the city of Buffalo from 8:00PM to 5:00AM every night from June 2 to June 7. Police officers pushed 75-year-old Martin Gugino, causing him to fall to the ground, which resulted in serious injury.