NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
Late Wednesday night, several police cars were torched in an NYPD parking area, following earlier confrontations between anti-ICE demonstrators and police officers in New York City.
Eight vehicles were torched in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in a suspected arson at around 1:25 a.m. Thursday morning, police said.
The vehicles, including six marked and two unmarked vehicles, caught fire in the lot at DeKalb Avenue and Central Avenue, about two blocks from the 83rd Precinct, police said.
Several police vehicles were set on fire inside an NYPD parking lot overnight Wednesday, hours after anti-ICE protesters clashed with police. (LLN NYC)
more than 80 people were arrested after bottles were hurled at police and protesters breached metal barriers, per Fox 5.
Police clash with anti-ICE protesters on Wednesday. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told Fox 5 NY that about 2,500 people were involved and a smaller group turned violent.
“There was a smaller group of a few hundred where we did have to make arrests. Some of them were looking for trouble,” Tisch said. “My sense is that the vast majority of the 2,500 people that were there, were there to protest peacefully.”
