NYPD sources said they do not want to arrest people and they do not want to escalate the situation further.
Thousands of people have overrun Union Square Park and surrounding lanes of traffic in New York City on Friday as a popular Twitch streamer held a video game giveaway.NYPD sources tell Eyewitness News they do not want to arrest people and they do not want to escalate the situation further.Over the last few days, Kai Cenat, one of the most popular streamers on the video game streaming website Twitch, announced that he would give away Playstation 5 video game consoles at 4 p.m. in Union Square.
Upon first arriving over the scene, Eyewitness News reporter Shannon Sohn in Newscopter 7 reported seeing a group of police officers holding up pieces of plywood and taking cover behind cars that were stuck on 14th Street because of the crowd as they were pelted by objects thrown from the mass of people.There was construction happening near the 14th Street subway station and people in the crowd had grabbed and were throwing paint cans and other equipment.
A number of drivers were trapped in their cars as they were surrounded by the crowd and 14th Street was shut down as police set up a barricade of officers.
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