Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after blocking NYC bridges, tunnel
by TMO Staff
Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked several New York City bridges and a tunnel on Monday to demand an immediate ceasefire in the three-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict before police arrested hundreds of them and reopened the roadways.
Dozens of chanting demonstrators sat at entrances to the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges across the East River, as well as at the Holland Tunnel connecting New York City with New Jersey across the Hudson River, local media reported.
Police arrested 325 demonstrators, a New York Police Department spokesperson said, and all of the locations were cleared before noon.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the right to protest does not give people the right to block bridges.
“The goal is to peacefully protest without doing major disruption to the city, some people are not just driving to and from, across our bridges to go to their place of employment, some of them are dealing with some real emergency-type issues,” Adams said.
Video posted on social media during the protests showed demonstrators chanting: “NYPD, KKK, IDF they’re all the same,” referring to the New York Police Department, Ku Klux Klan and the Israel Defense Forces.
Protesters at the Holland Tunnel carried banners that said “Lift the siege on Gaza,” “Ceasefire Now” and “End the occupation.”
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