Blocked from reaching Met Gala in NYC, pro-Palestinian protesters burn American flag, vandalise WWI memorial
A number of anti-Israel protesters vandalised a World Battle I memorial in Central Park on Monday, Might 6. Many burned an American flag. This occurred after a gaggle of over 1,000 marchers have been blocked by police from the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, the place the Met Gala was going down.
Some protesters lit the flag on the web site of the One Hundred Seventh Infantry Memorial. The memorial was additionally vandalised with black graffiti studying ‘Gaza.’
Protesters have been seen plastering the statue’s troopers with stickers of the Palestinian flag that learn “Cease the Genocide. Finish the apartheid. Free Palestine.” A few of them climbed on high of the squaddies, draping Palestinian flags over the figures, or waving the flags.
A number of arrests made
Hunter School is the place the Palestinian activist group Inside Our Lifetime known as for a “Day of Rage” protest to march in direction of the Met. “Disclose, divest, we won’t cease, we won’t relaxation,” the group chanted whereas waving Palestinian flags. They have been seen carrying keffiyeh face coverings. Though the demonstrators have been believed to have focused the star-studded occasion, they have been unable to achieve the vacation spot.
The group was diverted into Central Park, after which police blocked the exits. “That is an train in futility at this level. There’s nowhere for them to go,” a cop was heard telling his associate, in keeping with New York Put up.
“Is that the Met?” one protester requested one other. “Oh no, we have been so shut.”
The group tried to achieve the museum by way of different routes, however have been stopped by cops each time. As dozens of arrests have been made, protesters yelled, “Who do you serve? Who do you shield?”
