Video games and US protests: Nintendo Store in New York involved, shattered shop windows

The tensions that are going through the United States as a result of the murder of African American George Floyd indirectly affect the Nintendo Store in New York. The windows of the historic Rockefeller Center store were shattered during a protest.

As reconstructed on social media by CNN television journalist Sarah Boxer, the stone that caused the destruction of the Nintendo Store window It took place when the procession of protesters headed to nearby Trump Tower to protest the policies of US President Donald Trump reached the checkpoint set up by law enforcement agencies near the skyscraper.

In the riots that occurred at the contact between the procession and the New York police, the shops and offices of the Rockefeller Center area, including the Nintendo Store, paid the most. The photographers and journalists of the TV crews who witnessed the clashes immortalized the emblematic image of a Super Mario plush on the ground among the shattered glass, a scene that immediately went viral on social media.

Finally, we recall that, as a result of the US protests for the death of George Floyd, Sony has decided to postpone the event on the PS5 games scheduled for June 4th and Activision to postpone the new Season of COD Modern Warfare and Warzone.