Dozens of climate change activists swarmed Rockefeller Plaza and its skating rink Saturday, draping the famous Prometheus statue with a protest banner.
Police arrested seven men and two women in the afternoon demonstration.
Eight protesters were booked for disorderly conduct. The ninth was charged with reckless endangerment for scaling the statue of the Greek god of fire — and hanging a banner that read “Climate Change = Mass Murder” and “Rebel For Life.”
At one point, some of the protesters had laid down on the ice to form the symbol for the UK-based environmental group, Extinction Rebellion.
But the skaters, meanwhile, continued doing their thing — circling the demonstrators while gliding by.
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