Pro-Palestine protestors briefly blocked Macy's Thanksgiving parade route by gluing their hands to the ground
Pro-Palestine protestors temporarily blocked the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday morning.
Protestors glued their hands to the ground and poured fake blood over themselves before being removed by police.
The protests come amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
Pro-Palestine protestors briefly disrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday by gluing their hands to the ground in the middle of Sixth Avenue in New York City.
Around 30 protestors were protesting by the avenue when they jumped the barricades onto the street around 10 a.m., ABC News first reported. The parade continued around them, according to the report.
The protests come amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
The protestors wore white jumpsuits with phrases like "racism," "colonialism," and "ethnic cleansing" on them. They chanted "Liberation for Palestine and planet" as they poured what appeared to be fake blood over themselves, a video posted by the journalist Oliya on X, formerly Twitter, shows.
Newsday reporter Matthew Chayes also posted a video of NYPD surrounding the protestors, who had glued their hands to the ground.
Other demonstrators attempted to block the parade route by carrying a banner that read, "Genocide then, genocide now."
The protestors were removed by the police and taken into custody, according to reports.
Protest organizers from Within Our Lifetime Palestine and Decolonize This Place urged protestors to "show up along the parade route with Palestine flags and signs" on social media on Wednesday.
"While New York City attempts to celebrate the genocide of indigenous people here, while turning a blind eye to the genocide taking place right now against Palestinians, we will make our voices loud and clear as New Yorkers who stand against genocide and stand with indigenous resistance everywhere!" Within Our Lifetime Palestine wrote on Instagram.
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