Today a group of climate protesters staged a rally in front of Citibank in New York City. There were about 150 of them in all and a couple dozen of them got arrested.
Twenty-three people were taken into custody during the first of a series of planned protests that organizers are calling the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, according to an early NYPD count…
“Planet over profit!” the group bellowed as officers began to arrest some of the participants…
“They’ve arrested dozens of us today because we’re out here for the kickoff to Summer of Heat,” one man said on a video posted to an X account called “Planet Over Profit.” “CitiBank is funding … hundreds of billions of dollars to the fossil fuel industry, while putting all of our lives at risk.”
The group behind this said it was more like 60 people arrested. In any case, here’ they are:
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