Edited by: TJVNews.com
Masked anti-police Antifa protestors staged violent protests during the Friday public transit commute in New York City, calling for a cop-free New York.
Protesters across the city vandalized turnstiles, trains and stations with anti-cop messages, according to a NY Post report.
The Police Benevolent Association of New York City issued a strong warning ahead of Friday’s Antifa demonstration, urging New Yorkers to “pay close attention.”
“This is [the] true endgame of the anti-police movement, an end of all policing & destruction of public order,” the group said in a tweet. “Our members have spent their careers — and in some cases given their lives — to bring public safety back to NYC. We can’t go backwards.”
Last week, an Antifa-backed social media account shared a video of three masked individuals accompanied by a tweet that read: “The streets are ours. The trains our ours. The walls are ours. This moment is ours,” according to a report on FOX News.
The minute-long video showing individuals vandalizing public property and jumping subway turnstiles, calls for supporters of the group to “meet up” and rally against law enforcement and transit fares, as was reported by Fox.
“We encourage you to link up with your friends, your family, and think of the ways you can move in affinity to build and f— s— up on J31 all day long,” an unidentified individual said, referencing Friday’s date.
Fox News reported that a Facebook group run by the same account shared an event that argued that the addition of 500 more MTA police officers is “a declaration of war against our communities.”
“That money should not be invested in the harassing and brutalizing of Black and brown folks. It should go toward making the MTA free, well maintained, and accessible to all.”
Protesters also amassed at NYC’s Grand Central Terminal at the start of rush hour Friday in an attempt to shut down the commuter hub, according to a NY Post report.
Following a skirmish between NYPD officers and the far-left radical protestors, MTA police arrested 12 people who refused to remove their masks when repeatedly instructed to by law enforcement officers.
The protesters then left Grand Central and headed into the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, according to police sources,
Some of the protestors held aloft homemade signs with such messages as, “Money for elevators not more cops,” and chanted “F–k the police, fight the power” and “No fare no cops.”
The NY Post reported that the Friday afternoon protest was part of an anti-cop, anti-fare full day event that was organized by the group Decolonize This Place, whose goals include “no cops in the MTA, free transit and no harassment.”
The Post also reported that two women were also arrested, summonsed and released at around 11 a.m. after posting “F—k the police” signs inside Bronx Criminal Court, cops said.
As of 5 p.m., police were also looking for an unknown individual who used a metal chain to shatter the screen of one of the MTA’s new OMNY fare machines at West 50th Street and Eighth Avenue, according to the Post report.
MTA Chief Safety Officer Pat Warren said the protests “divert valuable time, money and resources away from investments in transit services that get New Yorkers to their jobs, schools, doctors and other places they need to go.”
“This demonstration activity follows the dangerous pattern of previous activities that have resulted in vandalization and defacement of MTA property – clearly violating laws,” Warren said in a statement.
