On the evening of May 30, Chiara de Blasio, 25, was one of many arrested in Manhattan as protests against racial injustice and police brutality continue following George Floyd‘s brutal death on May 25.
Chiara, the daughter of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, was taken into custody for unlawful assembly after refusing to move from where she and other protestors were gathered; she was eventually released from law enforcement. “She was abundantly clear she was peacefully protesting, not doing anything that would provoke a negative response,” Mayor d Blasio said during a news conference on Monday, June 1. “I knew of some of her views.