Transport Workers Union of America President John Samuelsen said June 3 that his flagship local's support of a Bus Operator's refusal to transport people arrested in Brooklyn while protesting George Floyd's death in police custody was an assertion of members' rights rather than "a slight of the police."
The May 29 incident near the Barclays Center came after the NYPD had arrested 200 protesters, according to The Hill newspaper.
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