Flyer for meeting about NYPD violence
* Content Warning: police brutality and sexual violence *
- Label
- Flyer for meeting about NYPD violence
- Creator
- Dont Suppress OWS
- Object Type
- Flyers and Handouts
- Description
- *Content Warning: This caption includes description of police brutality and sexual assault.* On the six-month anniversary of Occupy, hundreds of protestors gathered in Zuccotti Park. Police abruptly declared the park closed at 11:30 PM, immediately moved into the park, and began brutalizing protestors with batons. Though this flyer does not speak directly of her experience, it was during this six-month anniversary gathering that Cecily McMillan was sexually assaulted, beaten, and arrested by NYPD. McMillian was ultimately charged with felony second-degree assault of a police officer. In a trial that was criticized as a miscarriage of justice, and became a rallying cry against the inequities of the justice system, McMillian was convicted of her charges, and was sentenced to three months in prison and five years of probation. She served fifty-eight days at Rikers Island. This flyer calls for an emergency response to the brutality that protestors, inclusive of McMillian, faced on March 17, 2012. It is not only a document of the harassment and violence that Occupy protestors faced at the hands of NYPD, but it demonstrates how fluidly, in a leaderful movement, protestors were able to organize themselves into action.
- Image Description
- Black text on a bright green 8.5x11 piece of paper reads "Emergency Meeting in Response to Saturday Night NYPD Brutalization of People in Zuccotti Park. Today, Sunday, 2pm. In the Courtyard, B-Level (entrance on Spruce Street).” The flyer describes police brutality during the sixth month anniversary of Occupy and calls on "thousands from the millions that have been inspired and had their imagination captured by Occupy to stop the nationwide suppression."
- Citation
- OWS Emergency Meeting about NYPD flyer, 2012; PE.029 Printed Ephemera Collection on Subjects; box 25, folder "Occupy Wall Street (Robert Reiss Donation)"; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University
- Collection
- Printed Ephemera PE.29
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- Declarations
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- Associated Web Archives
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