Activists arrested during Earth Day protest outside Trump Tower in Midtown
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NEW YORK — An Earth Day protest outside Trump Tower in Midtown ended in arrests on Wednesday, cops said.
A group of about 35 protestors sat in traffic outside the Fifth Avenue skyscraper near East 56th Street to protest the Trump administration’s environmental policies around 12:50 p.m., according to law enforcement.
Video uploaded by APT News to YouTube shows a line of protestors holding signs that read “Activists not terrorists” and “Trump is the terrorist” as they sit in the road blocking traffic. Police can be seen restraining the activists using flex cuffs before loading them onto a waiting NYPD bus.
An NYPD spokesman could not immediately say how many activists were taken into custody or how they were charged.
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