[NYPOST] Anti-cop rage over the police-custody death of George Floyd boiled over in Brooklyn on Friday night — with an NYPD van being set on fire in Fort Greene Park and hundreds of protesters trying to surround the 88th precinct in Clinton Hill before being rebuffed by a massive police mobilization.In all, some 200 people were arrested Friday and early Saturday in separate, heated protests in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, sources told The Post.
It was 9:30 p.m. when the empty police van was set ablaze in Fort Greene Park.
A crowd of some 3,000 protesters had converged on the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights hours earlier, with police releasing chemical mace as the demonstration grew unruly and began throwing objects at cops.
And still earlier in the day, in Lower Manhattan, at least 30 protesters were busted, including a man who allegedly punched an NYPD sergeant in the head with brass knuckles.
The brass knuckles-wielding man allegedly walloped the sergeant as crowds massed at around 4 p.m. near Centre and Leonard streets.
At the Barclays Center, thousands of angry protesters chanted, "They’re killing us!" and "F—k those pigs" while holding signs that read, "NYPD KKK." At one point, the crowd roared at the sound of fireworks going off.
Police sprayed mace on protesters after several in attendance began throwing things, police sources said. Cops were caught on camera beating several protestors with batons as onlookers screamed.
Assemblywoman Diana Richardson (D-Brooklyn) said she was sprayed by mace while trying to peacefully protest at the arena, home to the Brooklyn Nets.
(In 2016 she was charged with beating her son with a broomstick)
"This is uncalled for," Richardson told a WNYC news hound afterward. "I would never be in a position to be like this. I’m actually out here to make sure the peace is [kept]."
Protester, 27, is arrested for attempted murder of four NYPD officers for 'throwing Molotov cocktail at police cruiser' at Brooklyn demonstration while her 21-year-old sister is detained for resisting arrest
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
- Samantha Shader, 27, was arrested Friday night for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD cruiser in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
- The cocktail did not explode and there were no reports of injury; she allegedly bit an officer as he tried to arrest her
- She is now facing four counts of attempted murder; her sister, Darian, is also facing charges for trying to interfere in Samantha's arrest
- 3,000 protesters took to the streets of Brooklyn Friday night as part of nationwide demonstrations over the death of black man George Floyd
- Around 200 were arrested; NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea says 'countless' officers were injured; one had their teeth knocked out and several are in the ER
Ex-NYPD lieutenant warns about 'paid agitators' during George Floyd riots
[FoxNews] Former NYPD Lt. Darrin Porcher warned about paid demonstrators infiltrating ongoing protests and riots and emphasized the importance of communities working with law enforcement.
"As a former NYPD lieutenant, I refer back to me being a practitioner in New York City and the many instances we had -- what we referred to as paid agitators," he told Fox News' Arthel Neville on Saturday.
"These were people who were paid by specific groups to come in and quote, unquote, raise a level of anarchy -- throwing things, just creating somewhat of a miscreant society ... We knew who a lot these people were. because you would see them at one demonstration. Then a week later you would see the same demonstrator or agitator protesting all over again. They knew nothing nor cared anything about what the actual event was involved around."
Cuomo says he stands with Minneapolis protesters, links higher rates of coronavirus to racial inequalityNYPD Officer Calls Defenseless Woman "Stupid F*cking B*tch" Before Throwing Her To The Ground
[Zero Hedge] As rioters in Brooklyn set a police precinct ablaze, a video showing what appears to be a rookie NYPD officer forcefully throwing a defenseless young woman to the ground has gone viral, further inflaming public anger toward the police.
There was some argument about whether the young woman was moving toward or away from the officer at the time of the push, as some tried to claim that this brutal assault on an unarmed woman was somehow justified.
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The victim was hospitalized with injuries.
Both the cop shown in the video and his commanding officer (whom some reporters claimed can be seen standing nearby) have been tentatively identified on twitter, and an online campaign for the officer to be fired and face assault charges has begun.
The national guard has arrived on Broadway pic.twitter.com/JKKMNZwo8i
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