Two sisters were arrested on Friday night after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD van that held four police officers. According to reports, the cocktail didn’t explode.
The incident happened near the Brooklyn Museum shortly after 10:30 pm.
Samantha Shader faces four counts of attempted murder while her sister is being charged with resisting arrest.
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[Daily Mail] According to an NYPD statement provided to DailyMail.com Saturday, the cops subsequently exited the cruiser and attempted to arrest Shader, who allegedly bit one of them on the leg.
Shader’s younger sister, Darian, 21, attempted to interfere with the arrest and was taken into custody. The women both hail from the Catskills area.
They were among 3,000 demonstrators who took to the streets in New York City overnight as part of a series of nationwide protests over the death of black man George Floyd in Minneapolis on Monday. Floyd was arrested by four white officers, one of whom knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes as he lost consciousness.
During Friday night’s New York protest a separate NYPD van was set on fire and another was vandalized as activists vented their fury at cops over a ‘racist’ policing system.
Around 200 demonstrators were arrested in the Big Apple.
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This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on May 30, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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