A failed City Council candidate who has attacked blacks, whites, Jews and women is threatening to send “gang members” to protest a Manhattan events company, a new lawsuit charges.
Thomas Lopez-Pierre is threatening Bisnow, a media and events business, with “violence and economic harm” unless it guarantees half the speakers it books for various events are people of color or women, Bisnow claims in court papers.
Lopez-Pierre started his “extortion scheme” in November 2019, sending letters to Bisnow’s sponsors saying he would have “recently incarcerated Black and Hispanic men … disrupt and hold up banners” at their events, the company charges in an $18 million Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit filed Saturday.
Unless sponsors withdrew, “Our protestors will visit the corporate offices, homes and houses of worship of the speakers and sponsors … and yell that ‘XYZ’ person and/or firm is RACIST and SEXIST, until NYPD Officers arrive and drag them out kicking and screaming (which will be recorded on cellphones for social media),” Lopez-Pierre vowed, according to court papers.
“Diversity has always been a priority for Bisnow and they have a strong track record of outreach and inclusion in their company and events,” said Judd Burstein, a lawyer for Bisnow.

Lopez-Pierre told The Post his Real Estate Diversity PAC would subject Bisnow’s “sponsors and white male speakers to a ‘non-violent aggressive protest campaign’ over the next 12 months.”
The 51-year-old Democrat from the Upper West Side has a history of controversial behavior.

During a 2017 primary challenge against City Council Mark Levine, who is Jewish, Lopez-Pierre filmed a campaign video in front of Levine’s office saying, “Together, we can defeat the greedy Jewish landlords that are engaged in ethnic cleansing.”

Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright wanted Lopez-Pierre

booted from the party

, saying there was no room for someone who was “an anti-Semite, misogynist and homophobe.”

In 2013, Lopez-Pierre allegedly groped Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal at a news conference.

“Stop grabbing my ass! Get off me!” Rosenthal, then 55, exclaimed at the event.

Lopez-Pierre denied Rosenthal’s allegations.

“I’m at a political event — I’d grab some old woman’s ass?” he said. “Why would I grab some old lady’s ass. That’s insane.”