8 April, 2014

Food Shortages Spark NYC Protests

By: Ryan Najjar

New York, New York (AP): In response to the food ration cuts to New York City for the third time since the beginning of the year, thousands of students and residents have been gathered in Washington Square Park and the surrounding area since April 6th in order to raise their voice, holding signs that call for the increase of rations, along with the arrest and execution of Governor Henigman. Riot control forces arrived on the 7th and attempted to mollify the enraged protestors, but so far nothing has worked. Protestors have been fighting back with baseball bats, broken bottles, and even Molotov cocktails, while riot control has implemented nightsticks, tear gas, pepper spray, and non-lethal rubber-ball claymores and rifles. So far, 15 total deaths and 75 injuries have been reported on both sides, with 10 deaths and 40 injuries on the side of the protestors, and 5 deaths and 35 injuries amongst the riot control forces.

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The AP team has questioned several protestors over the past two days, one of whom was an NYU student. He would only refer to himself as Alabaster. These pigs need to realize that we cant take it anymore! I havent eaten for three days, and I have been living off of animals from the park and filtered gutter water for the past month. That is why Im fighting, although I cant speak for my friends that fight alongside me. But he was not alone in his struggles. In fact, a fair majority of the protestors have gone weeks and months without proper nutrition, and have been forced to live off of small animals like squirrels and ducks found in Washington Square and Central Park. To protect themselves from the tear gas and rubber bullets, protestors have also used heavy machinery to dig trenches into the concrete floor of the park. But protestors are not the only ones occupying the trenches. Since the riot control forces have showed up, the protestors have taken about 25 hostages, all of whom are riot control officers that came too close to the protestors camp. This, however, is not a unique incident. Since the first ration cut in February, several, smaller riots have popped up across the state of New York, including one in Syracuse in the middle of February that was mainly composed of college students and claimed two lives, one in Central Park in the beginning of March that claimed nine lives, and yet another in Albany during the middle of March that claimed four. As many have realized over the past few months, Governor Henigman has been reported to be using the funds intended for rations on defense and his own personal gain, although he has denied it on several occasions, including a press conference at the beginning of February, during which he said: I am appalled that the people of New York, my people, would believe, even for a second, that I would take away their food for my own personal gain or for defense funding. We are secure in our funds for the defense, and I have said countless time that I am perfectly willing and able to take a pay cut as long as my people are able to feed themselves and their families. I will always fight for this city, and I will be on the front lines. After this statement was made, reporters roared at Henigman with questions long unanswered by him in the past, but instead he decided to walk away from the podium and drove away, possibly back to his home in the Upper East Side. The AP team will develop this story further as information is received.

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