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After fireworks were mistaken for gunfire during the New York Pride Parade, there was a stampede
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A stampede broke out at a Pride parade in New York City on Sunday, with hundreds of people fleeing after misinterpreting the sound of firework displays for gunfire, according to police. “In Washington Square Park, there were no shots fired. Following an investigation, it was ascertained that the sound was caused by fireworks set off near the location “The New York Police Department confirmed the incident in a tweet shortly after it occurred.
According to police, “there were no serious injuries” as a result of the stampede.

Following the scare, terrified people ran or began walking along a street adjacent to the square, according to social media videos.
Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of lower Manhattan on Sunday for the LGBTQIA+ Pride parade, which looped its way through the hot sun.

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The mood was upbeat, despite the fact that the shadow of Friday’s US Supreme Court decision to overturn a constitutional right to abortion, leaving states to legislate on the issue, hung over proceedings.

The Pride parade in New York is the second-largest in the United States, after San Francisco, and it was held for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began on Sunday.
The abortion decision by the United States Supreme Court was described as “devastating” by organisers.
“This dangerous decision endangers millions, gives the government control over our individual personal freedom, and establishes a troubling precedent that jeopardises many other based on the constitution rights and freedoms,” organisers said.
Many rights groups fear that the abortion decision will be the start of a larger push by the Supreme Court, which is largely controlled by a conservative majority, to limit other liberties won in recent decades, such as the right to contraception or same-sex marriage.

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