NYPD officers pinned a protester to the ground as the crowd chanted “shame” at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City on Saturday afternoon.
In the midst of the chaos, a bearded man wearing a brown hoodie was forcefully thrown to the ground by law enforcement officers, who proceeded to restrain his hands.
This dramatic moment was captured by numerous protesters and journalists present at the march, where the New York police arrested multiple pro-Palestinian protesters.
The man was later escorted from the scene, handcuffed, as someone in the crowd angrily shouted, “racist son of a bitch.”
The confrontation occurred during a raucous Land Day march organized by the pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime (WOL).
NYPD officers restrained a protester as the crowd chanted “shame” at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City on Saturday afternoon.
In the midst of the chaos, a bearded man wearing a brown hoodie was forcefully thrown to the ground by law enforcement officers, who proceeded to restrain his hands.
The man was later escorted from the scene, handcuffed, as someone in the crowd angrily shouted, “racist son of a bitch.”
The protester pinned to the ground was “targeted at random,” according to a witness who shared videos of the arrest in X.
‘The NYPD randomly picks a protester from the crowd and throws him to the ground!!!’ the person wrote.
‘I saw the NYPD randomly attack a protester with my own eyes right now! First arrest of the day, his crime? Being on the SIDEWALK!’
Other disturbing images show a protester in a black hoodie stuffing his umbrella into the spokes of a police bike.
Moments later, he was forcefully pushed and slammed into a car before being arrested.
It is not yet known how many arrests were made, but at least six protesters were seen in images being handcuffed by the NYPD.
It is not yet known how many arrests were made, but at least six protesters were seen in images being handcuffed by the NYPD.
Those chaotic scenes were part of the march organized by WOL on the 48th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event commemorating the protests that broke out on March 30, 1976.
During one of the arrests, someone in the crowd threw a box at an officer while he was restraining a woman in a vehicle.
Those chaotic scenes were part of the march organized by WOL on the 48th anniversary of Land Day, an annual event commemorating the protests that broke out on March 30, 1976 against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land.
Six unarmed Arab protesters, including three women, were killed and more than 100 injured by the Israeli army and police during the protests.
Saturday also marks the sixth anniversary of the Great March of Return, also known as the 2018-2019 Gaza border protests, where Palestinians marched near the Gaza-Israel border to demand the right of refugees to return to Palestine.
Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Manhattan, marching from City Hall to Union Square on 14th Street, while dozens of officers from the New York Police Department’s Strategic Response Group Bicycle Squad were deployed.
Witnesses said protesters had to gather outside City Hall Park, because police shut down the entire park before the demonstration began.
As the demonstration moved through Soho, they shouted: “While you shop, bombs fall.”
Protesters dispersed in Union Square about three hours after the march began.
Witnesses said protesters had to gather outside City Hall Park, because police shut down the entire park before the demonstration began.
Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Manhattan, marching from City Hall to Union Square on 14th Street, while dozens of officers from the New York Police Department’s Strategic Response Group Bicycle Squad were deployed.
Those chaotic scenes were part of the march organized by WOL on the 48th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event commemorating the protests that broke out on March 30, 1976.
Earlier this week, Within Our Lifetime announced the protest, calling on people to “flood Gaza City Hall.”
The group wrote: ‘Honoring our relentless anti-colonial struggle, we affirm on Earth Day that the fight for the Liberation of Palestine is a fight to liberate every inch of land from the river to the sea.
‘As we sing: Whose streets? Our streets! Whose land? Our land! “We refuse to stop our movement until the genocide ends, until the siege on Gaza is lifted, until all refugees return to their homeland, until Palestine is free,” the post reads.
The protest announcement came after the group caused widespread chaos in New York City on New Year’s Day this year when they ordered participants to flood JFK Terminal 4.
More than 25,000 women and children have died in Gaza since the October 7 attack, according to estimates by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.