(Headline USA) Antifa activists attacked a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars draped with American flags and Trump 2020 banners rolled slowly through Manhattan and Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.
The caravan traveled from Coney Island to the Trump Tower in Manhattan before heading to a rally in a Brooklyn park.
Videos shared on Twitter showed several attackers pelting the vehicles with eggs or stones, snatching flags and shouting insults.
Eggs thrown on #JewsForTrump vehicle convoy in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/IvMC4uGXKN
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) October 25, 2020
According to Fox News, a family of seven was pepper-sprayed by the rioters.
“Immediately the kids started crying and screaming and I jumped out of the car after I was peppered [sic] sprayed as well,” another participant in the parade said said.
Woman arrested for spraying pepper spray at the #JewsForTrump vehicle convoy on 5 Avenue in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/kfrwaLTJgT
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) October 25, 2020
In one video showing physical fights between several people, police officers detain an unidentified man and protesters chant “let him go.”
Another video showed a small group of people throwing objects from a Brooklyn highway overpass at vehicles bedecked with Trump flags.
The Post Millenial reported that rioters burst through a police barricade.
It’s an all-out fight. Antifa militants broke through the police barricade to attack Trump supporters and pro-police demonstrators. pic.twitter.com/yn02h2i83i
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 25, 2020
NYPD and Trump supporters brawl against crackhead Antifa in NYC. pic.twitter.com/mZwwwL08HU
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 25, 2020
Antifa/BLM is vandalizing Jews for Trump vehicles with red paint in NYC and attacking the drivers. pic.twitter.com/vBUkqvZXF0
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 25, 2020
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani briefly greeted supporters from the passenger seat of a car driving near Trump Tower during the parade, videos show.
New York City police said seven people were taken into custody in connection with physical confrontations in Times Square. Charges were pending Sunday night.
According to the Jews For Trump website, Sunday’s rally was intended to show solidarity with “the beleaguered Red Zone community,” a reference to the coronavirus hot spots designated by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as areas where schools and nonessential businesses must close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The rally follows weeks of tensions in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods over the coronavirus restrictions.
Heshy Tischler, a City Council candidate and leader of Brooklyn protests against the restrictions, promoted Sunday’s car parade on Twitter.
Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to the Trump campaign and co-chair of Jewish Voices for Trump, organized Sunday’s rally in Brooklyn’s Marine Park at the end of the car parade.
Material from Associated Press was used in this report.
