Nat Towson

I mean, the police were trying to prevent them.

And you can watch the clip.

I'm not making this up.

And the EMT said, this man will die if I don't go up there.

They climbed multiple levels.

People were climbing on subway platforms, subway entrances, scaffolding.

It was everywhere.

We're lucky nothing collapsed.

But it was this really amazing moment where people took care of each other.

not just the EMTs, but in general, people were abandoned.

I saw people handing water bottles around because it got too hot.

People were helping each other in and out of the crowd and gathering for this really amazing collective moment.

And I think, you know, I've seen a lot of negative takes of like, oh, you could show up like this, but you couldn't show up for Palestine.

And I will have you know, or for your candidates, I'll have you know, I and a number of people left directly from the Knicks parade to go canvas for Congress people and other politicians in our area.

And I think if anything,

I don't think a lot of this will directly translate into direct action.

But I think a civilian population, largely of people who are not politically involved, realizing how important it is to gather, realizing how much power they have when they gather.

Because, I mean, I know I talk ill of the NYPD a lot.

They do have the fifth largest military budget in the world.

If they were a military, they're drastically overfunded.