About 12:30 p.m. Friday, the New York Police Department’s entertainment unit saw that Kai Cenat, a social-media streamer who has more than six million followers, had said that he would be in Manhattan’s Union Square that day, ready to give away free PlayStation 5 consoles and other prizes to fans who showed up.
The local precinct sent a few officers and supervisors.
By 1:30 p.m., there were about 300 fans in Union Square.
“Not a big crowd,” Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of the department, said at a news conference on Friday.
“Something we’d expect for a social media event like this.”
Persons:
Kai Cenat, ” Jeffrey Maddrey, ”
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New York Police
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Union