Almost two dozen individuals have been arrested after anti-Israel demonstrators took over the Brooklyn Museum, clashing with police and dropping a banner from the roof, cops stated.
Twenty-two individuals have been collared yesterday amid the huge Friday rally, together with serial protester Alvin Dan, who was slapped with an assault cost together with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice, cops stated.
Dan, 32, of Staten Island, was beforehand busted at anti-Israel demonstrations protesting the Met Gala in April in addition to final yr’s iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Seven others got summonses, in accordance with police, who earlier stated 34 individuals had been taken into custody.
Throughout Friday’s demonstration, rowdy protesters scaled the constructing earlier than rappelling down its facet with climbing gear and making their means into the museum, police sources stated of the demonstration, which included practically 1,000 individuals.
Demonstrators then arrange an encampment inside, whereas others scampered to the roof to unfurl a large bannister studying “Free Palestine” and “Divest From Genocide” over the entrance of the constructing.
Exterior the constructing, roughly 800 seething protesters continued to mob the world, a few of whom scrapped with safety guards and hurled slurs at cops. Others tagged the long-lasting yellow “OY/YO” sculpture with graffiti, together with “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza.”
Fees had but to be decided for these taken into custody, police stated.
At one level doing the protester, violent demonstrators have been caught on movie assaulting a pro-Israel motorcyclist carrying an Israeli flag as a cape close to the museum, in accordance with footage shared on social media.
The aggressive demonstrators surrounded the counter-protester, shouting “Free Palestine” and “I hope you die,” earlier than one grabbed the motorcyclist’s flag and yanked the driving force to the bottom, video confirmed.
The demonstration seems to have been organized by the anti-Israel group “Inside Our Lifetime,” starting practically a mile down the road close to the Barclays Heart.
The group had demanded its supporters “flood the Brooklyn Museum for Gaza,” and stated in a web-based flier it deliberate on occupying the establishment till its leaders “disclose and divest” from any investments tied to Israel’s struggle with Hamas in Gaza.
Extra reporting by David Spector.
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