Jews For Trump car parade stirs protests, fights in New York
Associated Press
October 26, 2020
NEW YORK — Skirmishes broke out between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump as a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars draped with American flags and Trump 2020 banners rolled slowly through Manhattan and Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.
The caravan traveled from Coney Island to the Trump Tower in Manhattan before heading to a rally in a Brooklyn park. Videos shared on Twitter showed several protesters pelting the vehicles with eggs or stones, snatching flags and shouting insults.
In one video showing physical fights between several people, police officers detain an unidentified man and protesters chant “let him go.” Another video showed a small group of people throwing objects from a Brooklyn highway overpass at vehicles bedecked with Trump flags.
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani briefly greeted supporters from the passenger seat of a car driving near Trump Tower during the parade, videos show.
New York City police said seven people were taken into custody in connection with physical confrontations in Times Square. Charges were pending Sunday night.
According to the Jews For Trump website, Sunday's rally was intended to show solidarity with “the beleaguered Red Zone community,” a reference to the coronavirus hot spots designated by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as areas where schools and nonessential businesses must close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The rally follows weeks of tensions in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods over the coronavirus restrictions. Heshy Tischler, a City Council candidate and leader of Brooklyn protests against the restrictions, promoted Sunday's car parade on Twitter.
Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to the Trump campaign and co-chair of Jewish Voices for Trump, organized Sunday's rally in Brooklyn's Marine Park at the end of the car parade.
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Brawl erupts at 'Jews for Trump' event in NYC
By Daniel Cohen
Israel Hayom
October 26, 2020
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was attacked by a mob of anti-Trump activists on Sunday, during a pro-Trump rally in Manhattan.
According to reports, members of the far-left Antifa movement gathered at the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street to protest the "Jews for Trump" caravan passing through the city.
Videos posted on social media show Antifa protesters hurling epithets at the caravan, with some directing their vitriol at the former mayor. "Fuck you, Rudy," one man screamed.
Other protesters were seen throwing eggs at the caravan, including Giuliani's vehicle, while one person was filmed ripping off a pro-police "Back the Blue" flag from one of the vehicles in the caravan.
Far-left demonstrators were also filmed accosing Trump supporters in Times Square, where they splashed paint on vehicles from the caravan, while fistfights broke out between the two sides.
Some one thousand vehicles organized by the "Jews for Trump" movement set out from Monsey, Flatbush, Boro Park, and Manhattan Sunday, driving through the city for a rally in Marine Park.
Attacks on the convoy were reported in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
In one incident, a woman sprayed pepper spray on a Jewish family driving with the convoy. New York Police officers arrested seven suspects.
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