By 10 a.m., the ferry from the Queens borough of Rockaway landed at the little port of Pier 11 in southern Manhattan.
A woman wearing pink lycras and bleached blonde hair exited the boat, which is a component of the city’s public transit system.
A translucent rucksack that showed everything within stood apart from the springtime ensemble. Mayor Eric Adams of New York and Keechant Sewell, the city’s police commissioner, had issued a warning the previous evening that some streets would likely be closed with security checks in place.
When questioned about recently established regulations outlawing weapons in certain portions of the city, Sewell responded, “If we discover the necessity to impose checkpoints, we will.
Yet, the Financial District, sometimes known as “FiDi,” in southern Manhattan, where the majority of the city’s financial institutions are located, resembled a scene from a Sunday movie.
Under the shade of the century-old buildings, the blonde strolled along Manhattan’s streets and sidewalks past tourists, joggers, men and women in suits, and blossoming plants. Her appearance and her clear bag appeared to have more to do with the weather than with a potential inventory of her possessions.
The situation altered a little bit a few streets north, between Lower Manhattan and Chinatown; news vans from the major media and vehicles with the emblem of the New York Police Department were parked along the sidewalks.
Four to six police officers in a group were moving in the same direction. Just a few streets separated the New York County Supreme Court from the city Criminal Court, where others were set like chess pieces.
For the first time in history, a former president of the United States and a contender for the presidency would be indicted there.
Trump’s appearance (or another New York spring event)
Marjorie Taylor-Greene, a steadfast Trump supporter and Republican representative from Georgia, suggested the meeting location early on Tuesday. The goal was to express opposition to the former president’s “political prosecution.”
By eleven in the morning, Collect Pond Park was enclosed diagonally across its square terrain at the base of the City Criminal Court.
Protesters supporting Trump’s impeachment in the north and those supporting the previous president in the south corner shouted at each other. Although being small, the ratio between the two sides appeared to be balanced and adapted to the small scale of the park.
Cops, reporters, and vehicles can be seen all around the square. Many media tents, visitors, some employees, amateur photographers, influencers, and performers may all be seen on the side facing the judicial building, which is bordered by seats and trees.
Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio stated, “I have waited for this day for seven years,” as he sat on a park seat to have his lunch.
A pro-immigration activist and vice president of the Brooklyn Young Democrats, a group of young people involved in politics, Calzadilla-Palacio, stopped by the demonstration during his lunch break. It’s a historic day, he said with a smile.
Groups of demonstrators congregated along the barriers for many hours, shouting at one other and starting conversations. An advertisement on the side of those close to the former president said, “Injustices everywhere are challenges to justice everywhere.”
A witch hunt is underway. Since 2016, they have sought to remove Donald Trump from the presidential campaign, according to Ana, an immigrant from El Salvador who also mentioned the thousands of people who have fled authoritarian governments in South American nations like Venezuela and found refuge in the United States. Americans are tired of the left’s attempts to take over the United States.
Jaime González, a native of Puebla, Mexico, took a break on one of the benches next to the previous leader. “Lock him up” was written on a cardboard placard that was placed at his feet and used to solicit photos from at least four photographers (lock him up).
González bemoaned, referring to the large number of media outlets present throughout the lengthy hours and even before Tuesday’s appearance, “It’s like too much propaganda for Donald Trump, now that he wants to be re-elected as president.
González highlighted, recalling that he had been one of the first to demonstrate against Trump even before he had become president, “At the end of the day, if people perceive him on the criminal side, he is a criminal.”
“He referred to us as rapists, drug traffickers, and criminals. How does it feel to be labelled a criminal?” questioned the Mexican.
The former president, who was travelling from Trump Tower to court, said on his social media account Truth Sociall: “On the way to Lower Manhattan, the courthouse. Everything feels absurd. Whoa, I’m going to get arrested. This is occurring in the United States? I can’t believe it.
Charges, hearings and what’s next for a city
Donald Trump arrived to the Manhattan Criminal Court building at about
2 p.m. He was awaited by a group of police officers, additional fences, journalists, admirers, and detractors for at least an hour under the obstinate heat.
Yet, the former president left the premises through the back door while being charged with 34 felonies.
On the corners of the streets nearby, journalists with laptops and compact camera memory were sat on the ground. There were barely a few individuals remained at Collect Pond Park along the dividing wall when the groups of officers left carrying Starbucks beverages.
A few streets away, at one of the locations set up for this service, a slender man with fine grey hair was charging his mobile while gazing in the general direction of the park.
The man added, pointing to the window facing the park, “I have been watching the media from my building for weeks.”
The media speculated on the amount of protestors who might heed Trump’s call for action prior to his appearance, which started with an arrest threat from him.
The man with the grey hair was reflective. He commented, “These have been full with people all these days,” pointing to the shops and eateries that lined the street and the effect the situation had on the city. The former president’s case is only getting started.
Hours later, from Mar-a-lago on the southernmost point of the East Coast, Trump declared, “I never believed something like this could happen in the United States,” capping the evening in self-defense. “The only crime I’ve ever committed was standing up bravely for our country against those who want to see it destroyed.”