USA: Anti-gentrification rally hits Brooklyn Real Eastate Summit

Dozens of anti-gentrification protesters rallied outside the Brooklyn Parkway Museum in New York City where the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit was being hosted, Tuesday. Demonstrators held signs reading "they say gentrify, we say occupy" and "hands off public housing." The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN) organised the event, gathering around 100 people in front of the Brooklyn Museum in order to protest growing gentrification and police brutality. The two issues are, in the eyes of the protesters, linked to a higher police presence in gentrified neighbourhoods, with critics stating that the disparity between communities leads to more conflicts among the mostly African American population in Brooklyn and the police.