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EXCLUSIVE Anti-ICE protesters who harassed black NYC mom UNMASKED as radical activists with checkered pasts
Two anti-ICE protesters who mocked a black New York City mother as she pleaded to get to work have been identified as a former BLM demonstrator who won a major lawsuit against the city and a senior vice president at a market research firm with a history of guerrilla activism.
Trevor Britvec, 36, was filmed alongside Karen Ramspacher, 60, blocking an intersection on Houston Street in lower Manhattan, arguing with a mother who was trying to drive past to get to work.
Conservative commentator for Turning Point USA, Savanah Hernandez, filmed the dramatic exchange and posted it on X Tuesday.
'Just watched 2 white liberals stop traffic and tell a mother who was begging to go to work, that illegals and their children are more important,' she wrote.
'I then asked them how they felt stopping a black woman from getting to work. They both laughed in our faces.'
Britvec was especially sarcastic to the young mother, mockingly responding 'Oh no, not work' to her question of what would happen to her kid if she lost her job.
When asked if he 'cared about stopping a black woman from going to work', Britvec smirked at the camera and admitted 'no'.
Britvec laughed in the face of the black NYC mom as she pleaded for him to move, saying 'oh no, not work' and smirkingly answering 'no' when asked if he 'cared about stopping a black woman from going to work'
In an exclusive interview with Ramspacher claimed she blocked traffic for less than 10 minutes – a disruption she called a small price to pay to highlight what she views as unjustified ICE raids.
'It was a temporary, momentary interruption to the regular flow of traffic in order to bring attention and express people's concerns about this dangerous situation we find ourselves in where the military and ICE agents are going into the communities and taking our friends and family members,' she said.
She said she did not know Britvek. 'That single video looks like it's that person and me blocking traffic,' the market research exec added.
'That's not what it was. We were preventing the cars from driving into the marchers. There were at least 10,000 of them behind us.'
Ramspacher, who has been participating in guerilla-style protests since the 1980s, explained why she had turned away when Hernandez asked her how they felt as 'white people… stopping a black woman from going to work?'
'I was surprised, and I turned away because that was not the issue that we're there to focus on,' Ramspacher told
But both Britvec and Ramspacher have eyebrow-raising histories revolving around the NYPD and 'woke' movements in the city.
According to public records, Britvec sued New York City alleging that his civil rights were violated by the NYPD when he was arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest in July 2020.
Describing himself in his lawsuit as a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, he alleged that several NYPD officers pushed him off a bike, struck him with a police baton, and shoved the baton 'up his buttocks' as he was arrested.
He added that he was wearing a face mask at the time 'to prevent the spread of Covid-19 ', and alleged that NYPD officers removing his face mask for a mugshot was also a violation of his civil rights.
According to the public court records, criminal filings against Britvec from this arrest were dismissed in September 2020, and he went on to sue the city along with five other BLM protestors.
In February 2024, the city reached a settlement with the group that saw Britvec awarded $115,000.
Ramspacher has held down a job as senior vice president of Innovation & Insights at market research firm MRI-Simmons. She's also a longtime New Yorker who owns a condo near NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan.
If there's a protest, its likely Ramspacher has been there as she's been photographed at demonstrations all over the city for the past four decades.
She is a core member of Act Up, an AIDS activist group that famously barged into a CBS studio interrupting Dan Rather on the Evening News in 1991, unfurled banners about condoms during the Pope's visit to New York and has been involved in other guerilla-style protests.
Ramspacher told the now-defunct Out Week magazine she was arrested at an abortion rights protest in 1989 and gave quotes in a report of a 2002 protest against Coca-Cola.
She was pictured at the 2017 25th Annual Dyke March for lesbian rights, at the July 2022 Women's March outside the White House in Washington DC and was quoted in New York Magazine's The Cut in September 2020 at a public memorial to late liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She also contributed to an Act Up online guide for 'civil disobedience training', in which she advocated for getting arrested at protests to bring attention to the issue at hand.
'A large number of people take arrests to communicate the idea that they are dissatisfied with the way things are- what's happening/not happening,' she wrote in the guide.
'For me, it began as a symbolic act a few years ago and has turned into a necessity both as my 'part' to contribute to the quest for social and political change, and as a channel for personal frustration and anger.'
A reported 80 people were arrested at the protest in New York City on Tuesday, though Ramspacher described it as 'peaceful ' during her attendance between 5.30pm and 8.30pm that evening.
She told that she hadn't seen footage of the violence at riots in Los Angeles, including burnt-out Waymo taxis and smashed up police cars, but added she believes it is a 'personal choice' for protestors to use methods they feel are proportional.
'The way that I ever get involved is, I see something that seems wrong, and if I can, I try to make a positive difference,' she said.
