The NYPD is currently searching for six people who allegedly fought officers on the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday night as the Millions March took place.
According to Gothamist, the trouble began when NYPD Legal Bureau lieutenants Patrick Sullivan and Philip Chan spotted a man holding a trash can. They attempted to arrest the man, identified as Eric Linsker, convinced that he planned to hurl the trash can onto officers on the bridge below. When other demonstrators realized what was happening, they got involved, igniting the chaos:
Police say the man with the garbage can, a CUNY adjunct professor and poet named Eric Linsker, was the one seen in the video resisting arrest and eventually escaping. Linsker allegedly left a backpack containing hammers, his CUNY ID, marijuana, and his passport behind, and he was arrested by members of the NYPD and FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force shortly before 4 a.m. on Sunday.
Linsker faces charges for inciting a riot, assaulting a police officer, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, robbery, unlawful possession of marijuana, and obstructing government administration. Gothamist notes that NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said new images of the other suspects will be released in the near future.
[via Gothamist]
