Manhattan Bridge shutdown against police brutality

A group of people march to the Manhattan Bridge in a protest against police brutality. A person in the foreground looks at the camera smiling. In the back, a partially visible red banner reads "Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence." During the mobilization, protesters blocked traffic in the Manhattan Bridge during rush hour. Other groups across the city joined the protest by taking over the Brooklyn Bridge, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.

The protests took place a month after the death of 16-year-old Yong Xin Huang, a Chinese American 16-year-old who was shot and killed by police officer Steven Mizrahi on March 24, 1995, while Huang was playing in a friend’s backyard in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. With the support of CAAAV and NCPRR (National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights), Huang’s family organized mobilizations in demand of officer Mizrahi’s indictment and against police brutality towards people of color during Rudy Giuliani’s administration as mayor of New York City. This protest was part of a city-wide demonstration that united groups fighting for education, jobs, housing, health care, AIDS care, and against police brutality. The protest shut down the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel during rush hour.