Blue and Black Lives Matter protesters clash at Brooklyn rally
From NYPOST.COM
It was a Blue Lives Brawl, as these dramatic photos show.
Tempers flared in Brooklyn Saturday as anti-cop protesters crashed a Blue Lives Matter rally — complete with furious finger-pointing and a lot of shouting, pushing and shoving.
Some three dozen anti-cop protesters showed up just before the 11 a.m. start of the rally at 13th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue in Dyker Heights.
The multi-racial group confronted a crowd of more than 300 police supporters, virtually all of them white.
“You want to destroy America!” pro-cop protesters hollered. “You are f—ing Communists. Go to Venezuela.”
At one point, an elderly pro-cop protester swung his fist at the other side. There were no arrests, however.
Lou Gentile, a 70-year-old Army vet, traveled to the rally from Staten Island in a three-bus caravan.
“I had to be here to defend my police – defend them and to show that I’m in total support of them,” Gentile told The Post.
Gentile said the disrespect of police officers goes back to last summer’s string of incidents in which several cops were doused with water while out on the streets.
“They risk their lives every day for us. When they put that gun on and that uniform, they risk their lives,” Gentile said pointing at cops.
“When you call them, who’s going to come? A social worker? I don’t think so. Who’s going to come? Him, him and him,” he said, again pointing at cops, “to protect your life.”
The NYPD quickly stepped in to separate the anti-cop protesters, who carried Black Lives Matter signs, from the pro-cop protesters, who chanted “NYPD!” and carried signs reading Blue Lives Matter.
The anti-cop protesters were barred from joining the rally as it marched up 13th Avenue. No arrests were reported.
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