This screen cap from a video posted on Twitter by NYC activist Eliel Cruz, shows officers pushing through the crowd, including one officer in particular, circled in red, who rushed back and forth, using his baton as a shield to push marchers out of his way and screaming at people to get out of the street.
Images posted on Twitter by @confident_wrech, below, show the same officer, circled in yellow, and suggests he “clearly has issues with queer folk.” In an event reminiscent of the 2009 raid on Fort Worth LGBTQ bar Rainbow Lounge on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, New York police officers attacked participants in the Reclaim Pride rally and march with pepper spray and batons on the 51st anniversary of Stonewall, right there in