DEVELOPING STORY: Violent clashes are underway in midtown Manhattan as pro-Hamas demonstrators clash with the NYPD. Hundreds, if not thousands of terrorist sympathizers, overwhelmed police positions around Fox News Channel and the Rockefeller Christmas Tree. Click here to watch the moment the clashes started.
Videos show the mob hurling police barricades into a crowd of officers while others clothed in Middle Eastern garb burned a police officer’s hat.
Protestors chanted “Free, free Palestine” as they waved flags and held signs, some reading, “Call it what it is, genocide.”
Protests had been expected by pro-Palestinian activists and officers feared violence or even a terrorist attack might be possible.
Opal Burnett, 33, of St. Louis, Missouri, echoed Fry’s frustration, told The New York Post the protests were i an embarrassment.
“It’s super, super annoying. Just excruciating. Seeing these people in such large numbers, it makes me feel embarrassed to be an American because people are watching this happening from abroad. Kudos to the cops for keeping these people under control and for showing restraint, because they deal with a lot of verbal abuse,” she said.
Jamie Fry, 42, who flew in from the United Kingdom to watch the tree-lighting spectacle said the protest was “very annoying.”
“I had planned my holiday around this event, being a big fan of Christmas. Now I’m walled in by a bunch of terrorist-loving a–holes calling for intifada,” Fry told The Post.
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Pro-Palestine protesters attack NYPD officers as they try to shut down the Christmas tree lighting event at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. Video by @ViralNewsNYC: pic.twitter.com/4S5cksKgUo
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 30, 2023
🚨#BREAKING: Chaos erupts As Pro-Palestinian Protesters try to Disrupt the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting breaking through barricades and fighting with police ⁰⁰📌#Manhattan | #NewYork ⁰⁰Currently Chaos is unfolding in midtown Manhattan, in New York City, as reports of… pic.twitter.com/MdfiLxHdxr
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) November 30, 2023
#BREAKING Heavy Clashes and Arrests as NYPD takes down Pro-Palestine protesters outside of Fox News Christmas Tree, just a block away from Rockefeller Plaza during "Flood Tree Lighting for Gaza" Protest.
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) November 30, 2023
Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/rY10Ktv06s
BREAKING:
— Anthony Hughes (@CallMeAntwan) November 30, 2023
Arrests are being made as pro-Palestinian protestors clash with the NYPD on the streets of New York.
They're disrupting the Christmas Tree lighting, causing a huge scene. pic.twitter.com/8tLZo2XEhS
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lightning
— MomsJustice (@MomsJusticeUS) November 30, 2023
NYC erupts into chaos during a Hamalestinian rally, and gates go flying into NYPD officers.
Khamas on our street
Source @ViralNewsNYC pic.twitter.com/u9SsFSaA8s
Why do pro-Palestinian protestors hate Christmas? Anti-Christian?!🎄✝️ 🎅🏻 Pretty much. BTW, where are the USA 🇺🇸 flags, NYC?!
— Carolina Castillo (@CaroCastilloCC) November 30, 2023
It’s sick. They ruined the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting for families! They’ve now become violent! NYPD making arrests.pic.twitter.com/6TrA2Mt9xh
There’s someone with a swastika sign at the Free Palestine protest outside the Rockefeller Center tree lighting in NYC tonight. @CBSNewYork https://t.co/o8TOcH6zTj pic.twitter.com/5dMOBBftn2
— Ali Bauman (@AliBaumanTV) November 29, 2023
Protests led by pro-Palestinian groups erupted near the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting in Midtown Manhattan and outside Fox News headquarters. SkyFOX captured a poster from the demonstration that appears to show a swastika. https://t.co/r647uL346q pic.twitter.com/NcmaasF4lm
— FOX 5 NY (@fox5ny) November 30, 2023