Protesters clash with police after storming Kamala Harris campaign after party
More than a dozen people – including a Big Apple sales rep and music teacher – were busted as rowdy anti-Israel protesters descended on
Keli Sutter, 45, of Upper Manhattan, was charged with criminal mischief, riot and resisting arrest, cops said.Nine people, ranging in age from 21 to 51, were given criminal court summonses and three were released with desk appearance tickets. The angry mob of around 50 protesters stormed into the restaurant Bird in Hand at Broadway and West 146th Street as stunned patrons looked on, according to footage. Other videos showed cops taking rabble-rousers into custody as a crowd circled the police. Whistles and horns sounded, and smoke bombs were also set off during the brouhaha. Ayesha Schmitt, 27, of Astoria, who was slapped with a desk appearance ticket for resisting arrest, said she felt “a moral obligation to protest.
“We definitely made a lot of noise. We found out where the restaurant was, where their afterparty was going to be. The people ahead of me, in the restaurant disrupting the afterparty, were forcibly removed from the restaurant,” he said, noting he didn’t go into the eatery himself.
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