NYC pro-Palestinian protesters temporarily disrupt Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupted and blocked the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday, starring to 21 arrests, constabulary said.

Activists poured onto the parade way connected Fifth Ave. astatine W. 55th St., blocking a Ronald McDonald float, astir 9:25 a.m., astir an hr aft the beloved world-famous parade kicked off.

The demonstrators, immoderate holding a banner speechmaking “Don’t observe genocide” and “Arms embargo now” blocked the way of the procession, present successful its 98th year, for respective minutes.

One protestor could beryllium seen connected the crushed surrounded by members of the NYPD, portion different went limp arsenic helium was dragged distant by 2 cops. Police arrested 21 protesters. Charges against them were pending.

Pro-Palestinian protesters show connected Sixth Avenue during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

During past year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, demonstrators jumped the barricades astatine Sixth Ave. adjacent W. 45th St. astir 10 a.m. Some demonstrators glued their hands to the asphalt, making it much challenging for constabulary trying to circular them up.

Also successful November 2023, 7 were arrested during a pro-Palestinian protestation 2 blocks from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.

About 1,000 took portion successful past year’s tree-lighting protest, and astir fractional the radical were near successful the assemblage erstwhile determination was a faceoff with constabulary adjacent W. 47th St. and Sixth Ave., adjacent Fox News headquarters. Multiple radical were pepper-sprayed by officers successful the ensuing melee.

NYPD cops apprehension Pro-Palestinian protesters during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)