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The police were investigating the attack in Crown Heights, where hundreds of pro-Israel demonstrators surrounded a woman and hurled slurs at her.
April 28, 2025Updated 10:15 p.m. ET
A small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, shadowed by a heavy police presence, rallied in Brooklyn on Monday night to condemn the actions of a crowd of pro-Israel counterprotesters who verbally and physically assaulted a woman there last week.
After gathering at Barclays Center, the pro-Palestinian group, which numbered in the dozens, set out for the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the focal point of dueling protests on Thursday where the woman was attacked.
The police filled the streets, with some officers blocking off cross streets by standing in a line while holding bicycles. When the crowd began to drift into the street, a police recording directed protesters to get back on the sidewalk or face arrest.
One man was arrested near the Central Library on Grand Army Plaza shortly before 9 p.m. The protest was otherwise peaceful, and the police kept the group from reaching its intended destination.
Fliers for the protest cited two other assaults that organizers said had happened at the Crown Heights protest. Mayor Eric Adams said on Sunday night said that a second woman had been separated from other pro-Palestinian protesters and harassed by counterprotesters. She was injured in the encounter, Mr. Adams said.
Erin Williams, 37, was among those in the crowd. Ms. Williams, who lives in Crown Heights, said the attacks on the two women had motivated her to join the protest.
