i just got here and NYPD already going apeshit

cmon

some PBs were walking toward the counter and decided to turn back around on seeing a sign about love vs hate lol

Rudy Giuliani just drove by

Counter demonstrator approaches the MAGA caravan in NYC

NYPD paralleling the counter demo. Pulled out their batons and brought their shields down

Good night, alt right flag

MAGAs dropping their flag at 56th & 5th. White shirts seem to be switching to cell phones. Youll never see the NYPD care more about jaywalking than during a protest.

NYPD just called to get the LRAD ready. A reminder that the NYPD doesn’t know how to use the LRAD: https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/1308287388406308864

NYPD just requested TARU and legal to meet them

To be more specific, McGinn is the one doing most of the radioing

Bike bois have arrived. No cool dude @foxracing gear today.

McGinn counts about 40 counter demonstrators on the sidewalk. Dispatch asks if it’s orderly and McGinn gives a big 10-4. About 45 seconds earlier he told a demonstrator “you were already violent.”

Dispatch has MAGAs on 43 & 5th “spitting on each other and the crowd is growing” requesting mobilization.

Meanwhile, with the counter group on 42nd & 6th:

MAGA caravan on foot & in cars is moving down 42nd toward the counter demo.

2 arrests, unclear why. Heard a taser go off. https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/1320413986530099200

Dispatch requesting pwagon at 46th, arresting counter protestors.

If you’d like to feel dizzy, here’s a video of me running to catch up to the pwagon call

Much flag. Very foldy.

2nd part of the video. 1 against many. Plus the “fash photographer” people have seen at a lot of things photographing them. Aimed his camera right at me.

Guy on a megaphone said “The Illuminati doesn’t care about the color of your skin!” And a nearby woman put her hand in the air, closed her eyes, and mouthed “Yes!” Like she was hearing a sermon.

Speaker says he knows Trump personally and he knows he will get “the platinum plan” done. It is not clear what that plan entails.

There’s more cops at Times Square than there are MAGA or counter protestors. Also... this Christian band.

Fist fist broke out, Christian band kept at it. What a day.

The poor Nuts4Nuts vendor didn’t ask for this.

SRG has mixed MAGA and counter protestors in a sidewalk together. You’ll be surprised to learn that some punches just got thrown. Seems like NYPD is struggling to keep people separate despite crowd being majority NYPD.

I am on a big truck

Stand-off seems to just be hovering to different places. Punches get thrown, NYPD push around, crowd moves. On repeat. Melee happening in the street right now so now the group is out of sight. We’ll see if they move back or I have to move.

SRG just arrested a guy on a dirt bike. Sounded like lots of bikes were moving past. SRG calling for transport.

Grey sweatpants outfit was the one wailing on someone. He’s being put in an ambulance and his mouth is bleeding. It doesn’t appear that police are joining him.

Dispersal order fails to provide a time frame or direction of dispersal. Then cops get mad at me because I was taller than them.