NARROWSBURG — Around 50 people gathered on the Narrowsburg Bridge on Monday evening to stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and protest the climate of police brutality against African Americans.

Organizer Janet Burgan said she woke up that morning and felt like she had to do something. The musician and record producer has many colleagues and friends in New York City and she was speaking with them on a regular basis about what was going on there.

“It broke my heart, just the whole situation,” Burgan said. “It's as simple as ‘enough is enough.' I'm white, I'm privileged, I grew up with plenty of everything, I could walk anywhere [because of the color of my skin]. [But] we are one race, we are the human race.”

Burgan said she was on a Zoom call with some fellow activists and they inspired her to organize the protest. On Monday morning she sent out an email and created a Facebook event and only a few hours later people came to the bridge with signs and wearing masks.

“They're showing up as allies. I don't see many people of color here, so we're allies. And we're standing up,” she said.

The Narrowsburg Bridge has long been a place where people gathered to protest or support a cause, a symbolic gesture of bridging the gap between divisiveness.

Protests have convened all across the country and the world in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police officers.

Floyd is among many other African American men, women and children who have been killed by police officers.

The gathering on the Narrowsburg Bridge brought people of all ages from the surrounding community. Thirteen-year-old Tom South said he was there in support of George Floyd and wanted to make sure his voice was heard.

“In my online classes for school we talked about it a lot,” the Homestead student said. “We had a big discussion about it today, and it was really nice to know that my class is talking about it and we're trying to make sure that we're up to date. Kids should know about this too, so as adults we're educated.”

The protest will continue weeknights at 5 p.m. (except for Wednesday it will be at 7 p.m.). By the second night on Tuesday, the crowd had nearly doubled to around 100 people.

Another peaceful protest was held in Monticello on Sunday where around 300 people attended, and one was held in Honesdale yesterday afternoon after press time.