The Pride Day parade was massive in New York. Photo: AFP / Ed Jones.
Hundreds of people gathered this Sunday in a New York plaza for the Pride Day on stage a stampede by mistaking the sound of fireworks for gunshots.
“No shots were fired in Washington Square Park. After an investigation, it was determined that the sounds were fireworks launched from the place,” the NYPD clarified shortly after in a tweet.
The NYPD intelligence service assured AFP that “there were no serious injuries” in the stampede, although it could not be determined how many people were injured in any way.
On social media you can see videos of people running or walking fast and frightened on the streets surrounding the popular New York square, in a city where the use of firearms is becoming more frequent every day.
The LGTBQIA + community was particularly sensitive this weekend after a shooting just meters from a popular gay-friendly bar in central Oslo left two dead and a couple of dozen injured.
In New York, tens of thousands of people attended the Pride parade through the streets of Lower Manhattan this Sunday under a harsh sun, in a festive atmosphere, albeit overshadowed by the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice to suppress the constitutional right to abortion, leaving to the States the possibility to legislate on the matter.
The parade is back on the streets of New York after a forced hiatus of two years due to the covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Reuters / Athti Perawongmetha.
The Planned Parenthood organization was one of those who participated in this first Pride March after two years of pandemic, an event that claims the rights of LGTBQIA + groups.
For the organizers of the parade in New York, the most important in the United States next to San Francisco, the Supreme Court decision on Friday, which ended nearly five decades of protection and freedom of reproductive health, is “catastrophic”.
“This dangerous decision puts millions of people in a dangerous situation, gives the government control over individual freedom to choose and creates a disturbing precedent that jeopardizes other constitutional rights and freedoms,” the organizers said.
Many fear that the repeal of the federal right to abortion could be the start of a much broader attack by the highest US court of justice, dominated by a conservative majority, to limit freedoms won in recent decades, such as the contraception or mixed marriages. same sex.
One of New York’s most iconic buildings, the Empire State Building, was illuminated at night in the colors of the rainbow flag of the LGTBQIA + movement.
Source: Clarin
