Protesters in New York City staged a rolling demonstration from their cars to mark May Day on Friday, calling on the government to protect workers' rights and provide aid to help people reeling economically from the effects of the coronavirus crisis.
A sign is displayed on a car in Times Square amid a driving caravan protest calling for workers' rights and cancelling the rent payment during May Day protests in Manhattan, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, in New York City, New York, U.S., May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar
The caravan of cars rolled through a largely empty Times Square, honking their horns and displaying banners saying: ‘Cancel the Rent.’ New York has been the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.“People are struggling right now,” Perla Liberato, a protester with the Make the Road New York activist group, told Reuters. “People are not able to pay rent.”
Street protesters laid out mock body bags to represent people who have died from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. Some 13,000 people have died in New York City alone.
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