Police temporarily close New York's Brooklyn Bridge due to large pro-Palestinian demonstration
Police temporarily shut down all lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday after a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators started heading in that direction.
The bridge, which connects Manhattan with the borough, was closed in both directions, according to an alert from the local government's NotifyNYC service.
The rally started at Brooklyn Museum at 3 p.m. ET, continued in front of Barclays Center arena at 4 p.m. ET and ended at the Brooklyn Bridge, according to a post by Within Our Lifetime, which promoted the demonstrations.
“Join us at Brooklyn Museum or march and converge with us throughout the day,” a post from the Palestinian-led community organization reads. “The more they try and silence us, repress us, push us off the streets, the larger our numbers will be, the louder we will be.”
The New York City Police Department said the demonstration has been nonviolent and they have not had any incidents with demonstrators at this time.
The rally in the most populous US city was among several seen around the world this weekend, including a "March for Palestine" in London that drew thousands of participants Saturday, and a demonstration by a Jewish group calling for a Gaza ceasefire in New York's Grand Central Terminal, which led to around 300 people getting arrested Friday night.
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