A Queens woman was arrested on a reckless endangerment charge for supposedly driving through a packed protest with her car in Midtown Manhattan on Friday afternoon, harming six protesters, police reported.
What We Know:
- Kathleen Casillo, 52, from 85th Street in Howard Beach, Queens, was let go on a desk appearance summons from the 17th Precinct for the Dec. 11 disturbance, which happened around 4:08 p.m. on Dec. 11 during a protest at the intersection located in East 39th Street and Third Avenue.
Reports Of Two Females In A Vehicle Plowing Through A Group Of Protesters In #NewYork #NYC
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- Casillo is seen ramming into the protesters with her 2019 Black BMW sedan. The sedan had slowed down at the intersection or had come to a complete stop before Casillo hit the gas and rammed into the crowd, video of the disturbance shows.
- Police sources state that the victims were brought to Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center with injuries that were not deemed life-threatening.
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- WABC-TV reports, as many as 70 people were taking part in the protest. According to NYC Protest Update, which is conducted by journalists who cover protests across the city, the march was conducted in unity with a hunger strike by nine ICE prisoners at the Bergen County Jail located in New Jersey.
- “We were marching from down the street. A black car, two women, nosed up on the protest, hit someone, then stopped for, I don’t know, like a second, then put the gas down and stormed through the crowd,” stated Morgan Burns, one of the protesters, who said that this was the fifth hit-and-run through a protest that she’s witnessed this year.
Following the incident, there were informed clashes between protesters and police officers on the scene. Burns mentions, two protesters were detained, who said that cops also confined the crowd at the intersection for a time.
