The 69-year-old Guardian Angels founder was charged with obstructing governmental administration and orderly conduct, and released on a desk appearance ticket during the Sunday afternoon rally outs…
over migrant housing in the Big Apple, authorities and sources said Monday.
“These migrants have jumped the queue,” he told the crowd, made up of about 100 demonstrators bashing City Hall’s handling of the migrant crisis, Sunday. In addition to Sliwa, two elderly people were slapped with the same charges and also received desk appearance tickets: Luis Menchaca, 80, and Collette Rottenstreich, 81, the sources said.
A fifth person, Andrew Hallinan, 32, faces charges of assault on a police officer, firefighter or EMT, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and assault, the sources said.Both Hansen and Hallinan are known as “professional protestors,” the sources said. A sixth person was also taken into custody, but not charged, according to the sources. No other injuries were reported.
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