Police arrested four protesters who locked themselves to a controversial National Grid fracked gas pipeline construction site in Williamsburg on Thursday morning.
Two environmental advocates fastened each other to the underground tube for three hours while two more activists secured themselves to the active building site at the corner of Manhattan and Montrose avenues at around 9 am, protesting the utility company’s seven-mile fossil fuel pipe.
“They don’t care about us. They never asked for our consent to come in here so we need to stop it because no politician is doing it for us,” said Pati Rodriguez, who linked herself with a makeshift cardboard pipe to the pipeline with fellow protester Benny Woodard on Oct. 15.
About 30 protesters with groups like the No North Brooklyn Pipeline Coalition and Frack Outta Brooklyn cheered on the subterranean stunt as dozens of cops with the Special Operations and Technical Assistance Response units showed up and cordoned off the block.
The demonstrators live-streamed their underground action, while another protester held a dance session above the construction site.
Just before noon, police went down and hoisted them out, cuffing the duo along with the two other protesters who were locked against the construction fence — including local Council candidate Lincoln Restler.
Cops drove the four arrestees to the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville for trespassing onto the site, although they have yet to be formally charged, a police spokesman said. They were yet to be formally charged and were still at the eastern Brooklyn station house as of Thursday evening, a Department spokeswoman said.
Looks like Lincoln is taking a page from the de Blasio cosplay protester campaigning playbook.
As for this environmental group, where were they when this pipeline started three years ago? Why did they and most importantly Lincoln wait until the last phase of construction was happening in their neighborhood? NIMBY much?
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DiBlasio was once arrested? Sorry I missed that. Thanks for the reminder JQ. Now this mayoral scumbag HAS to go!!!
No energy for NY. Everyone gets to live in a cave by candlelight-unless candles are deemed evil too. How quaint.
These people make Ayatollah Khomeini look modern in taking Iran back 1000 years with his crazy revolution. These clowns want to take NY back even farther into the past apparently.
Excellent news. He can go to Gitmo, next to Hildabeast and Creeper Joe.
Who?
Now he’ll get elected for sure.... he and his cop hating American hating rich hypocritical family are a disgrace
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@Anon re: Who
Exactly. Hopefully he'll get ignored by the residents.
"Exactly. Hopefully he'll get ignored by the residents"
unfortunately, JQ LLC, the residents of his district eat his brand of bullshit for breakfast.
Is it just me or does anyone else think this snowflake scumbag look like Stuart Smalley of Al Franken fame?
Nothing happens by chance with these sleasey corrupted NYC Marxist.
Looks like they have complete control of the "Lame Stream" media. #FAKENEWS
Trump's Presidency Summary:
Investigated for what Clinton did.
Impeached for what Biden did.
Blamed for what China did.
Liberals like this are the reason the Western Roman Empire fell so rapidly.
Admin note:
I made a error in the headline about the location. This happened in Williamsburg. I made a mistake by citing the image I cropped from the old article.
The "norm" in NYC is CORRUPTION ! He can win...
JQ no worries man, is like how was the play Mrs. Lincoln. You got your point across!
Al Franken fame?
You mean pedo and such?
Asshole guy.
Many mom and pop Pizza joints had to close because the landlords would not renew the lease to sell the building.
Now they cant move because National Grid would not turn the gas on.
For example Filomina's on City Island is out of business until the Governor Gargoyle makes good on his promise to pull National Grids license to operate in NYC.
--Been waiting a year and a half as a remodeled new place across street sits idol.
The city needs this pipeline, the Elmhurst reserve gas tanks should have never been removed.
Anyone notice all the noise from cars and motorcycles racing all day and night on the streets ? They are out of control and it sucks our elected retards are doing nothing to stop it !
If an antifa disagrees with another antifa about what it's favorite flower is, does it call the other one a Nazi?
Who is this guy again???
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