America’s largest community of Egyptian-Americans staged a demonstration in New York in conjunction with a huge protest in the Egyptian capital of Cairo called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign.
About five hundred people gathered at the police barricades in Times Square on Friday, chanting, “Mubarak must go!”
One demonstrator raised inscription “Stop the Egyptian police brutality.”
After the rally, Times Square, the group marched through the streets of the city to the building of the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations. About 60 thousand Egyptian-Americans live in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, in accordance with the U.S. government. Community members say the real number is twice the rate. Last week, Egyptian Americans gathered in cafes and restaurants in Little Egypt Queens “glued to the television broadcasting bloody clashes in Cairo. Many are worried about family and friends in their home country.
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