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The story goes like this: the people were screaming, begging the cops to let them go, pleading that an arrest would devastate their lives. People were trying to escape the paddy wagon, but they were pushed and packed in, while the doors were being closed. from https://wildhunt.org/2019/06/editorial-stonewall-50-years-and-a-day.html https://wildhunt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Stonewall-Image.jpg

(CNN) President Barack Obama announced Friday he was designating the area around the Stonewall Inn in New York City as the country's first national monument to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/travel/stonewall-inn-first-lgbt-national-monument/index.html