Aviva Stahl

“We were just protecting each other, and we felt protected by the work we were doing.”

Police pepper sprayed at least 10 people and arrested four.

"I’m sick of seeing Black women dying, Black women being shot, Black women being harassed, Black trans women being murdered, and no one doing anything."

Protests took a knee while holding their arms up in solidarity.

Over the spring, Gothamist was in touch with two women held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, who said they were denied basic medical care and that their cells routinely flooded with sewage.

Low staffing levels means that many prisoners have faced two-person panels and received split decisions, forcing them to plead their case again within a matter of weeks.

For many transgender people, the constant threat of deadly violence is a real one, but hardly the only form of discrimination they face.

'If I described these conditions to you, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was Iran or Russia. But in fact this gulag exists right here in lower Manhattan.'

"The only one who can defend us now, is you."

"Are you asking us to just say, because the city says so, it must be so?"

Two starkly different narratives illustrate the difficulty of determining the truth about NYPD undercover operations and raise questions about whether the police overstepped their authority.

"The statement that there was no blanket surveillance is refuted directly and emphatically by the NYPD's own documents."