The law will phase out the industry by June 1, 2028.
A New York City woman's impassioned plea to a group of looters to stop what they were doing is resonating with people across the country.
Large crowds angry over the George Floyd death gathered peacefully for hours around New York City, closing the Manhattan Bridge as they marched from Brooklyn to Manhattan on Sunday night, but by 9:30 p.m. some clashes with police were reported along with small street fires and looting.
It was a mostly peaceful day of protest in Brooklyn Sunday after an outbreak of violent clashes where more than 100 arrests were made Saturday night.
NYC Mayor de Blasio said that city police showed "tremendous restraint overall," but he said was concerned about video showing two police cruisers lurching into a crowd of demonstrators on a Brooklyn street.
Protests in Brooklyn that started off peacefully Friday quickly turned violent, with a dozen NYPD officers injured and at least 200 arrests, police cars set ablaze and the door and windows of the 88th Precinct in Clinton Hill vandalized.
