Mayor de Blasio defends right to protest
Protestors and police wrestle with a barricade on the corner of Wall Street and Broadway during a march demanding action on climate change and corporate greed, on Monday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is defending protesters’ rights to demonstrate on New York City’s streets. More than 100 people were arrested Monday in a climate change protest claiming that Wall Street companies were destroying the earth.
Many of them deliberately blocked roadways, snarling traffic in the nation’s financial capital.
De Blasio said Tuesday he thinks “the First Amendment is a little more important than traffic.”
