NEW YORK If you were looking at the courthouse in New York City where disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is currently on trial for multiple counts of sexual assault on Friday morning, it would have seemed pretty quiet.

But just across the street, something was brewing.

Dozens of women had gathered in the park facing the courthouse. They were a diverse group, wearing black with accents of red, many of them tying black mesh around their eyes and carrying totes emblazoned with TIMES UP and Dolores Huerta quotes. Just before 11 a.m., they marched out of the park and lined up, faced the court and began to chant.

Patriarchy is our judge that imprisons us at birth! And our punishment is the violence you dont see, the women sang in unison as they swayed back and forth in a choreographed dance.

The rapist is you. Its the cops. The judges. The state. The president.

The song they were singing, Un Violador en Tu Camino (which translates to A Rapist in Your Path in English), was written by LasTesis, a feminist performance group based in Chile. It was first performed publicly in Chile in November 2019 in the midst of the countrys nationwide uprising against inequality. The video footage of the flash mob spread quickly, and Un Violador en Tu Camino has since been performed around the world in London, Mexico City, Paris, Berlin, Bogota and Barcelona.