Nearly 60 protesters were arrested Tuesday in chaotic Manhattan rallies near the UN that included more than 150 demonstrators holding hate-fueled signs such as “Abolish Israel.’’
Dozens of demonstrators in the morning shouted, “No Trump! No fascist USA!” and waved signs reading, “Reject Trump” and “Arrest Trump” as they blocked traffic at the corner of East 46th Street and Third Avenue, prompting the NYPD to cuff at least 10 of them.
Handcuffed unruly anti-Trump protesters shout while detained by the NYPD outside UN headquarters in Manhattan on Tuesday. Getty Images
A protester wears devil horns as the throng blocks traffic. Getty ImagesOne protester wore red horns and held a staff with a sign reading, “Trump is the Emergency” next to a large inflated figure of the “South Park” character Cartman.
The busted protesters continued shouting as they were handcuffed, herded onto an NYPD bus and brought to NYPD headquarters for processing, a law-enforcement source told The Post.
A climate protest that marched down 42nd Street resulted in the arrest of about 47 people at around 10 a.m.
Other demonstrators also converged on the area during the United Nations’ largest gathering of world leaders, where President Trump spoke before its General Assembly.
They included two groups of anti-Israel protesters who sprouted up blocks away from each other by early afternoon.
One rally, at the intersection of 42nd Street & Second Avenue grew to approximately 150 people.
Police were forced to set up barricades to allow traffic to continue as protesters began to spill into the streets.
Detained protesters are placed onto an NYPD bus and transported away from the United Nations. JOHN TAGGART/EPA/ShutterstockA second, smaller anti-Israel protest gathered near Lexington Avenue, led by the Maine Coalition for Palestine.
The group held fake street signs that read, “F–k Israel Lane,” “Abolish Israel” and “Israel has no soul.”
Another nearby demonstration included more than a dozen Iranian regime opponents calling for the release of over a dozen young prisoners sentenced to death in Iran.
The protesters, shouting “No Trump! No fascist USA!” block traffic at the corner of East 46th Street and Third Avenue. Getty Images
President Trump addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. AP“Stand with the voice of 15 innocent youth in Iran facing execution,” read a sign by the anti-Ali Khamenei group in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza near the UN.
The protest featured rows of photos of people who a sign said had “Fallen for Freedom.”
A small group of anti-Israel protesters was gathering near Lexington Avenue in the area by early afternoon, too.
The climate-activist group Extinction Rebellion also disrupted traffic near one of the main checkpoints for the UN conference.
“We did this because we believe the world deserves better,” the group’s organizer, Matthew Menzies, told The Post.
“The United Nations has been working for years trying to address climate change, and they have consistently, particularly the superpowers, global superpowers have consistently failed to meet those goals, to meet sustainability needs,” Menzies said. “And right now, the world is on fire. The people need our help.
“I don’t really know what’s happening in there,” he said of the UN. “Maybe one day, I’ll get to work in there, and I’ll be able to figure it out a little bit better.”
