On Tuesday night, the New York Police Department blocked off the Manhattan Bridge to prevent hundreds of peaceful Brooklyn protesters from crossing into Manhattan. After a tense standoff pinning protesters on the bridge, officers eventually let them off on the Brooklyn side without any escalation into violent conflict.
The police brutality protesters originally gathered at Barclays Center before marching across the bridge toward Manhattan. When the NYPD wouldn’t let them through, some protesters started singing Ludacris’s Top 10 hit, “Move B-tch.” Luda later expressed his support for the protesters on Twitter:
Reporters for The Gothamist and The New York Times were at the scene:
After being pinned on the bridge, protesters were eventually allowed to return to Brooklyn:
“Move B-tch” is the fourth single from Luda’s 2001 album, Word of Mouf. The KLC-produced track peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and marked the Atlanta rapper’s first Top 10 hit on the chart.
On the track, Luda calls for other drivers to move out of his way:
Move b-tch, get out the way
Get out the way b-tch, get out the way
While the NYPD didn’t engage in violence during this particular march, that often hasn’t been the case during the nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Many cities, including New York City, have imposed curfews in an attempt to curtail the protests.
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