NYPD's Historic Mass Arrest Campaign During George Floyd Protests Was Mostly For Low-Level Offenses

The arrests and detentions during the protests against racist police violence, spurred by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, far surpassed recent mass arrests by the NYPD. The nearly 2,500 arrests and detention over those 11 days exceeded the mass arrests during the four days of the 2004 Republican National Convention, when 1,800 people were jailed. The NYPD was sued for unlawful detention over those arrests, and settled for $18 million years later. During Occupy Wall Street in 2011, more than 700 were arrested; 93 percent of those cases were dismissed. Black Lives Matter marches in 2014 avoided large-scale arrests of protesters. To read more of the story by reporters Gwynne Hogan and Sydney Pereira, visit Gothamist.com.