It believes the messages undermine Mr Harris' claim that New York police led protesters on to the Brooklyn Bridge to make it easier to arrest them.

BBC: Brooklyn bridge

Verrazano is named for the bridge that links Brooklyn with Staten Island in New York City.

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Both Blake Robison, director of the production now running at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, DC, and Sam Mendes, who directs the Bridge Project's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, emphasise this aspect by opening their productions with the actor who plays the unfortunate Mamillius, the boy-prince who dies of grief, reading from a book of fairy tales.

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