A Professional-Palestine march from Brooklyn to Manhattan ended with seven protesters arrested, based on a police supply — and the removing of 1 man who had scaled a statue of George Washington.
Protesters with the group Inside Our Lifetime gathered at Cadman Plaza West in downtown Brooklyn round 4 p.m. earlier than marching throughout the Brooklyn Bridge to their ultimate vacation spot at Union Sq., the place they arrived round 7 p.m.
About 500 folks have been nonetheless on the park when an unidentified man climbed to the highest of the 26-foot statue of George Washington on the south aspect of the park and shouted “I’m not coming down until there’s peace in the Middle East, peace in Ukraine and peace in India!”
An unidentified male scaled the George Washington Statue in Union Sq. throughout a pro-Gaza protest on Could 15, 2025. (Kerry Burke/New York Each day Information)
“I want peace in the world!” he declared.
The person continued shouting whereas clinging to the founding father’s head till police emergency companies went up in a cherry picker forklift and wrestled him off the statue.
The person didn’t handle the group after cops introduced him down and positioned him in a ready police car.
