A supporter of President Trump who had attended an alt-right Manhattan celebration of the anniversary of the inauguration was attacked by a protester Saturday night, police said.
A protester being arrested by officers after assaulting an attendee at a event headlined by Mike Cernovich.Christopher SadowskiSeveral hundred people had bought tickets for the gathering at a nightclub at West 50th Street and 12th Avenue — which featured right-winger Mike Cernovich and which was, oddly, crashed by transgender Wiki-leaker Chelsea Manning. She tweeted from the scene she “crashed the fascist/white supremacist hate brigade party,” adding she learned in prison that the best way to confront your enemies is “face-to-face in their space.”
About 80 anti-Trump protesters marched outside.
A contingent of some 60 cops set up barriers between the two groups.
When the event broke up, a protester followed a Trump supporter, punching and choking him a block away, police said.
The victim, 56, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Charges were pending against his 30-year-old attacker, who Cernovich called a “domestic terrorist.”
Mike Cernovich outside the event.Christopher Sadowski