Ten protesters were arrested during a rally in solidarity with Palestine outside the Brooklyn Museum on February 10. According to a police report obtained by Hyperallergic, the charges against the demonstrators include resisting arrest, assault, creating unreasonable noise, harassment, and obstructing governmental administration. Additionally, one person received a court summons for using a “sound reproduction device” without a permit.
Organized by the Palestinian liberation group Within Our Lifetime (WOL), the rally started in front of the museum’s main entrance on Eastern Parkway, where a crowd of keffiyeh-clad protesters carried banners and signs demanding a ceasefire and honoring the nearly 28,000 Palestinians whom Israeli forces have killed in Gaza since Hamas’s attack on October 7. The demonstration occurred shortly before another event where more than 500 protesters participated in a sit-in at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Concurrently, a separate open letter from a coalition of local museum and cultural workers was publicly released.
