Judge Jeanine Pirro denounced an attack by protesters on Wednesday that left several New York police officers, including department chief Terence Monahan, bruised and bloodied.
Pirro told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the “agitators” disrupted a “march against violence” planned by police officers, members of the clergy, and other activists across the Brooklyn Bridge, leaving one of them with a watershed. broken.
“Just before the march there was a black SUV in front of the town hall [in Manhattan] where someone was handing out baseball bats, “Pirro said.” So the police told me they could see some of those baseball bats, but obviously some of them couldn’t. “
Protester attacks New York police officers, including department chief, as they make their arrest
The host of “Justice with Judge Jeanine” described the attacks as part of “a total effort to destroy law enforcement and destroy any peaceful conglomerate that we can muster; the clergy and the police, and Chief Monahan, the guy who is the highest uniformed officer in the district police: he was hit with a bat or some kind of wooden stick. “
The NYPD tweeted around 12:30 p.m. that at least three officers were injured by someone swinging a long object while placing a person under arrest on the opposite side of one of the bridge fences. A police spokesman said Monahan suffered a non-life-threatening hand injury.
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“New York City is now like a Third World country,” Pirro proclaimed, “and New York City will be like Chicago, like the homeless in Minneapolis, [like the] 43 days [of unrest] in Portland They’re intentionally tearing down our civilization. “