


Sixty people were taken into custody in connection with Friday’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations in NYC, including a Brooklyn woman charged with assaulting a police officer, police said.
“Sixty persons were taken into custody, the vast majority summonsed and released on disorderly conduct,” an NYPD spokesman said Saturday.
Fifty-seven summons were issued in Brooklyn and three in Manhattan, cops said.
Jennifer Hansen, 32, of Brooklyn, was arrested at the corner of East 43 Street and 2nd Avenue in Midtown shortly before 6:30 p.m. when she did not heed warnings to stop trying to trip and kick officers as they walked by her, police said.
Hansen repeatedly kicked a lieutenant in the leg and then struggled with cops trying to place her in a squad car when she was taken into custody, the NYPD said.
Hansen allegedly “refused to lift her legs to step into the vehicle and repeatedly kicked an officer in the legs and wrapped her legs around the officer’s legs,” cops said. She was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, assault and disorderly conduct, authorities said. Her arraignment was pending Saturday afternoon.
Local lawmakers were among dozens of demonstrators demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war who were arrested outside New York Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home on Friday night, according to police sources.
Earlier Friday, pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from Baruch College in Midtown through Times Square to United Nations Headquarters on East 45th Street, waving flags and holding signs demanding an end to the war.
Hansen was arrested amid the march, authorities said.