The New York City Police Department told JNS that it arrested multiple people and that it is addressing an ongoing matter, as protesters staged a sit-in at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday afternoon.
Around 100 protesters advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian agitator who is in federal custody and facing deportation for, the Trump administration says, supporting Hamas , the New York Post reported.
The anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace organized the gathering, which included people wearing red T-shirts stating “Jews say stop arming Israel,” according to footage that the Post published.
The protest came after an initial federal court hearing on Wednesday, in which Jesse Furman, a US district judge in Manhattan, determined that the Trump administration cannot yet deport Khalil.