{"id":210097,"date":"2020-07-10T06:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210097"},"modified":"2020-07-13T06:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:19:40","slug":"nyc-black-lives-matter-marches-can-continue-despite-large-event-ban-de-blasio-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210097","title":{"rendered":"NYC Black Lives Matter marches can continue despite large-event ban, de Blasio says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vincent Barone \u2013 New York Post July 9, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-136249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/black-lives-matter-seattle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mayor Bill de Blasio is permitting Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through city streets while <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/09\/nyc-puts-summer-parades-street-fairs-on-hold-through-sept-30\/\">canceling all large events<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>through September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speaking on CNN Thursday night, de Blasio said the demonstrators\u2019 calls for social justice were too important to stop after more than a month of demonstrations have not led to an outbreak of coronavirus cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThis is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the kinds of gatherings we\u2019re used to, the parades, the fairs \u2014 we just can\u2019t have that while we\u2019re focusing on health right now,\u201d de Blasio told host Wolf Blitzer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The exception came as New York\u2019s rate of infections has remained consistent through the civil unrest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A late-June study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found no evidence that coronavirus cases jumped in 315 cities in the weeks after the first protests. Researchers determined that protests may have been offset by an increase in social distancing among those who decided not to march.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Researchers reasoned the protests may have been offset by an increase in social distancing among those who decided not to march.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The City Hall shutdown will include big parades like the West Indian American Day Carnival in Brooklyn Labor Day weekend, the Dominican Day Parade in midtown Manhattan and the San Gennaro festival in Little Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The de Blasio administration will also deny all permits for events in parks it believes will \u201cunreasonably diminish public use\u201d as well as street fairs and events stretching larger than one block or for gatherings that require a sound system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/09\/nyc-allows-black-lives-matter-marches-despite-ban-on-large-events\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite cancelling all large events in the city until the end of September, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has made an exception for BLM protests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210119,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210097\/revisions\/210119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}