NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — Police have made some arrests after Pro-Palestinian demonstrators crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, snarling traffic Monday evening.
Citizen App video shows police making arrests after demonstrators crossed onto the Bridge from the Manhattan side.
Shannon Sohn is live in NewsCopter 7 as pro-Palestinian protestors made their way across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Westbound lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge remain closed as police continue to disperse protestors. The New York City’s Office of Emergency Management told drivers they should expect delays.
It comes amid an international and multi-city effort to bring awareness to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
In New York City, Wall Street became the site where hundreds of protestors gathered to voice their stance on the tension in the Middle East.
With temperatures rising in the city, the tempers of demonstrators both for and against the war clashed just outside of the New York Stock Exchange.
At one point, police stepped between …