The co-founder of New York’s Black Lives Matter chapter said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio‘s citywide vaccine mandate is targeting the black community and creating conditions akin to segregation.

“Seventy-two percent of black people in this city from ages 18 to 44 are unvaccinated,” Chivona Newsome said during a Monday protest in New York City. “So what is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off the train, off the bus?”