More than 50 people were injured during the celebration of pride in Washington Square Park on Sunday evening when it sparked false reports of shooting and spreading a bear spray to scramble from people flee for their lives, according to the police and sources.
A man without a strong chemical shirt in the garden – burning many eyes of passers -by – at the same time, rumors of the shooting thousands of Greenwich village garden, believing that their lives were in danger.
The man was arrested by the police at the scene, according to NYPD.
It was not immediately clear the number of injuries that were the result of the number and their number due to the campus, but it was not expected to threaten life.
Police estimated that there are approximately 10,000 people in the park at the time. Many rushed through the garden in a state of panic and were seized at the police barriers.
The suspect appears to be believed to be jumping, so he was panic and the defense of self -defense.
Many of those present in the garden had no idea what was happening, and the celebration remained near the park after it was told the chaos.
Some believed that they had heard and ran on an instinct, with someone discovered a fire on the crowd.
“We all thought that some fanatics who carry a weapon were shooting on people, so of course we run in any direction that would get us out of the fastest garden. But due to the presence of thousands and thousands of people, you had all these barricades that prevented you from making the fastest escape. So we all had to advance all in an organized way, and that no one wanted to do so because we were all circumcised,” 20 years old from Washington.
Louvin said that he saw many people with different injuries, including some of their forms that come out of their eyes and one young man in the blood running on the side of his head.
Others said that the barricades had harmed more than it was useful while they were trying to escape, and even contributed to some chaos.
“Everyone dances, everyone's concerts, then everyone screams. I didn't know what happened, but the word about it was gunshots. I did not hear gunshots, but when you hear the word” gunshots “, he said this is all you really need to get yourself out of there.
“There was a stampede. People were screaming, traveling all over themselves. Police officers were trying to purify the garden, but there was a barrier at the top and everyone got very tight against the barricades and resembles the bottleneck.”
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Every year, the Praid show ends via Manhattan in Washington, Square Park, where many today jump inside and outside the fountain.
Hours after chaos, two people were shot outside the declared LGBTQ bar, The Stonewall Inn, which was hosting the Brida celebrations throughout the day at night.
While today he greatly celebrated, violence has erupted between groups in recent years.
Last year, a multiple fight erupted throughout the day from morning to night, which led to the arrest of 22.
In 2022, one of the depression in the garden decided to illuminate a set of fireworks shortly after the darkness of the darkness during a supportive gathering of selection, proudly coinciding with, but many confused them with the shots and made it for him, which led to a stampede similar to Sunday that was observed.
