After Professional-Israel Crowd Assaults Lady, Protesters Rally in Brooklyn

A small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, shadowed by a heavy police presence, rallied in Brooklyn on Monday night time to sentence the actions of a crowd of pro-Israel counterprotesters who verbally and bodily assaulted a lady there final week.

After gathering at Barclays Heart, the pro-Palestinian group, which numbered within the dozens, set out for the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the point of interest of dueling protests on Thursday the place the lady was attacked.

The police crammed the streets, with some officers blocking cross streets by standing in a line whereas holding bicycles. When the group started to float into the road, a police recording directed protesters to get again on the sidewalk or face arrest.

One man was arrested close to the Central Library on Grand Military Plaza shortly earlier than 9 p.m. The protest was in any other case peaceable, and the police saved the group from reaching its supposed vacation spot.

Fliers for the protest cited two different assaults that organizers mentioned had occurred on the Crown Heights protest. Mayor Eric Adams mentioned on Sunday night time mentioned {that a} second girl had been separated from different pro-Palestinian protesters and harassed by counterprotesters. She was injured within the encounter, Mr. Adams mentioned.

Erin Williams, 37, was amongst these within the crowd. Ms. Williams, who lives in Crown Heights, mentioned the assaults on the 2 girls had motivated her to hitch the protest.