'Bedlam' — What it's like to live near Sen. Schumer's Brooklyn home during months of protest
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Protestors block the street near the home of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Brooklyn borough of New York during a demonstration by pro-Palestinian Jewish groups on the second night of Passover calling on Schumer to stop arming Israel amid its retaliatory assault on the Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024. “We know with a lot more notice when ‘Law & Order’ is filming on the block than we do if there's going to be a protest." [ more › ]

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