NYPD Cops Attacked on Brooklyn Bridge

The complaint alleges that NYPD Legal Bureau Lieutenant Chan saw Harvard educated Eric Linsker "carrying a large garbage can towards the Manhattan bound lanes of traffic located below the walkway" on the Brooklyn Bridge, after officers escorting the protesters had seen trash rain down on the road. Linsker then put the garbage can down, but the complaint says he resisted arrest; that was when "protesters grabbed at Lieutenant Chan and pushed and pulled him off of ," with one of them wearing a mask punching Chan in the face and breaking his nose. "Lieutenant Chan also observed several protesters assist defendant in removing his jacket so he could flee and evade apprehension," the complaint states. Another officer claims that a protester handed him a third hammer, and said, "They were throwing these." Linsker was arrested by members of the NYPD and FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force shortly before 4 a.m. on Sunday. Source: gothamist