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Protester Who Threw Fake Blood on NYPD Commissioner Gets Community Service

HeadlineMay 26, 2015

And in New York, a protester who threw fake blood at New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at a police brutality protest in November will perform 10 hours of community service under a deal with prosecutors. Diego Ibañez was initially charged with multiple felonies while Bratton said he hoped he would “be a professional resident of Rikers Island [jail].” Ibañez told Gothamist, “One of the things I was taught is that it’s really important to start making the invisible visible. The NYPD does a really good job of convincing the general public, through the mainstream media, that they don’t have blood on their hands. This was a way of showing that they do.”

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