College students, agitators and a Hamptons brat among 86 arrested at rowdy NYC anti-ICE protest
Cops cuffed 86 demonstrators at a rowdy anti-ICE rally in Lower Manhattan Tuesday, among them the daughter of a Moroccan actor, a self-proclaimed poet from an upscale college and a coed whose family owns a posh home in the Hamptons, The Post has learned.
'My sense is, the vast majority of the 2,500 people that were there, were there to protest peacefully,' NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Fox 5 News. 'There was a smaller group of a few hundred where we did have to make arrests. Some of them were looking for trouble.'
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6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
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The protest in Foley Square against deportation arrests by federal immigration agents began peacefully but grew increasingly violent shortly after 5 p.m., with the mob hurling bottles at cops and throwing traffic cones into traffic, an NYPD spokesperson said.
Of the 86 who were charged, 52 were issued summonses for disorderly conduct and other minor charges, while 34 were arrested and charged with more serious crimes, including felony assault.
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Among those busted was Vega Gullette, a 19-year-old student at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers who describes herself as 'a Moroccan-American writer, artist, and lover of junk.'
The teen, who was charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct, is the daughter of Sean Gullette, an actor, screenwriter and director whose credits include the Darren Aronofsky films 'Requiem for a Dream' and 'Pi.'
6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
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6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
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Also among those charged was Rachel Schreiber, 22, of Brooklyn, who is facing resisting arrest, reckless endangerment and attempted assault charges in the melee.
Records show her parents own a $3 million home in Westhampton Beach.
'I'm not giving any reaction,' her mother told The Post Wednesday. 'I'm not ready to talk about this with the press.'
Some of the pinched protesters are no strangers to Big Apple demonstrations.
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Robert Mills, 40, who was charged with reckless endangerment and issued a disorderly conduct citation in Tuesday's scuffle, was charged with obstructing governmental administration in April during an anti-Israeli protest in Brooklyn, the Jewish News Syndicate reported.
6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
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6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
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Tabitha Howell, 40 — who was cited for disorderly conduct — was among those injured when a crazed Queens woman drove into a Manhattan Black Lives matter protest in 2020.
'It's one thing to face physical recovery,' Howell, who said she suffered five bulging discs in her back and a traumatic brain injury in the incident, told The Post at the time. 'It's another to try to process what happened mentally and emotionally.'
Meanwhile, Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams gave assurances this week that the city will not devolve in to chaos like Los Angeles, where ICE agents sparked outbreaks of violence that required the National Guard to step in to try to restore peace.
6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
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'Watching what was going on in California, I spent the weekend on the phone with our federal partners in New York City — the head of the FBI in New York, federal protective services, homeland security investigations,' Tisch told MSNBC's 'Morning Joe.
Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan
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