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The Group Portrait: Kettled, Then Vindicated

New York magazine

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March 13 - 26, 2023

The city is making a historic payout to George Floyd protesters.

- By Nia Prater. Photograph by Joshua Rashad McFadden

The Group Portrait: Kettled, Then Vindicated

Nearly three years later, Samira Sierra can still recall the screams. It was June 4, 2020, only a week after the murder of George Floyd, when a peaceful rally in the South Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven turned to chaos as NYPD officers surrounded hundreds of protesters and pressed them in-a tactic known as kettling. Samira and her younger sister, Amali, were trapped in the middle of the crowd. "I remember hearing Amali frantically scream and just continuously telling her to breathe," Samira tells me.

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