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About 25 protesters picketed a building that houses the offices of the city’s largest police union Wednesday morning.
Members of the Black Youth Project and Million Hoodies for Justice chanted and held signs outside 125 Broad St. in lower Manhattan at about 9:30 a.m.
Ten protesters tried to get inside to the Patrolmen Benevolent Association's offices but were blocked at the lobby turnstiles by security, witnesses said.
Demonstrators called for the PBA to be “defunded.”
(Reggie Lewis/New York Daily News)
They sat down and refused to leave and the police moved in to make arrests. At least five people were taken out in handcuffs.
The groups said they want to "defund" the PBA because it "protects and defends" cops who kill black people, according to a spokesman.
Slogans on protesters' signs included the phrases “PBA protects killer cops” and “Stop cops, fund black futures.”
(Ginger Adam Otis/New York Daily News)
The PBA is funded by members’ dues.
They also demanded the NYPD fire Police Officer Wayne Isaacs, who shot and killed Delrawn Small in Brooklyn July 4 during a road rage confrontation.
The protesters carried signs which read, “PBA protects killer cops,” and “Stop cops, fund black futures.”