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Trans Activist Jailed at NYC Protest, Charged with Bullhorn Possession

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arrested Thursday night on charges of having a bullhorn during a scheduled weekly protest in New York City. Rivera has been organizing and leading marches every week since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis this summer.

During election week, police presence has been escalating across major cities like New York, and Thursday night, hundreds of heavily armed NYPD officers swarmed demonstrators marching through Manhattan, leading to multiple violent arrests and confrontations by police.During the arrests, Rivera was shoved to the ground while wearing a ball gown and heels. “I was tackled by, I don’t know how many officers,” Rivera told Gothamist. “I had a bike on top of me… I was just in pain.

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