A Professional-Palestine march from Brooklyn to Manhattan ended with seven protesters arrested, in accordance with a police supply — and the elimination 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 remaining vacation spot at Union Sq., the place they arrived round 7 p.m.
About 500 individuals 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 Might 15, 2025. (Kerry Burke/New York Every 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 providers went up in a cherry picker forklift and wrestled him off the statue.
The person didn’t tackle the gang after cops introduced him down and positioned him in a ready police automobile.
