The leader of a radical activist group supporting Hamas was among the dozens arrested when police cleared an anti-Israel encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, the Post reported.
Manolo de los Santos, 35, was seen being taken away by two NYPD officers wearing riot helmets near the West 27th Street campus on Tuesday.
De los Santos, who was wearing a Palestinian scarf around her neck, was photographed screaming as she was escorted from the scene.
It was not immediately clear whether he was among those arrested.
Police handcuffed a total of 50 protesters during the FIT riot, according to police sources.
About 10 minutes after warning those who did not leave the Chelsea campus that they would be charged with trespassing, police burst into the crowd.
Mr. de los Santos is the leader of the Midtown-based nonprofit People’s Forum (TPF), and before he violently stormed Hamilton Hall last week, he told protesters at Columbia University in 2020. called for people to tell the story of the deadly Black Lives Matter riots.
The agitator, who spent “many years” in the socialist haven of Cuba, has made a career of promoting protests on the streets of the Big Apple.
As TPF’s executive director and de facto spokesperson, de los Santos has repeatedly spewed anti-Israel rhetoric in recent days. call to Hamas Describing the Oct. 7 terrorist attack as “heroic” and calling on Israel to “erased from history”
His encounter with the police during an FIT encampment raid was just his first brush with the law.
de los Santos said on Jan. 27, when hundreds of anti-Israel protesters descended on Manhattan, partially blocking the Brooklyn Bridge and attempting to “flood” JFK Airport in Queens. He was among the 10 protest leaders arrested.
