


Cops arrested six residents of a Brooklyn migrant shelter Thursday morning — and charged four of them with assault on an officer — for allegedly getting rowdy during an NYPD crackdown on illegal scooters, sources said.
The officers were confiscating motorized bikes near the shelter at 445 Jefferson Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 7:15 a.m. when some of the residents got out of hand, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The scuffle eventually led cops to take six residents into custody — four of whom have been charged with attacking an officer, sources said.
Two others were charged with obstruction.
EMS workers treated two cops for minor injuries, sources said. Officers also confiscated 16 electric scooters.
It’s not the first time trouble has erupted at one of the city’s migrant shelters over the vehicles, which many asylum-seekers use to find work without permits.
“Because we’re immigrants, we don’t have many options,” one migrant told Fox 5 earlier this week. “One of the easiest options is to grab a motorcycle and apply on Uber.”
Late last month, cops arrested a female migrant outside an Upper West Side shelter for allegedly slapping an officer who was trying to confiscate her unregistered motorbike.
Cops had been conducting a scooter crackdown patrol Aug. 31 at West 71st Street and Broadway, steps from the Stratford Arms Hotel, which the city is using as a shelter.
Baibaia Rodriguez, 20, was charged with resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, and harassment after she “hit an officer with an open hand,” around 10:30 p.m., according to police.
She was released on her own recognizance at her arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court the following day.