At least 10 anti-Trump protesters were arrested Tuesday during a chaotic demonstration near Manhattan’s UN headquarters, where the president was addressing the General Assembly.
Dozens of demonstrators shouted, “No Trump! No fascist USA!” and waved signs reading, “Reject Trump” and “Arrest Trump” as they blocked traffic at the corner of East 46th Street and Third Avenue, prompting the NYPD to cuff some of them.
One protester wore red horns and held a staff with a sign reading, “Trump is the Emergency” next to a large inflated figure of the “South Park” character Cartman.
The busted protesters continued shouting as they were handcuffed, herded onto an NYPD bus and brought to NYPD headquarters for processing, a law-enforcement source told The Post.
Other demonstrators also converged on the area for start of the United Nations’ largest gathering of world leaders. The protesters included more than a dozen Iranian regime opponents calling for the release of over a dozen young prisoners sentenced to death in Iran.
“Stand with the voice of 15 innocent youth in Iran facing execution,” read a sign by the anti-Ali Khamenei group in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza near the UN.
The protest featured rows of photos of people who a sign said had “Fallen for Freedom.”
A small group of anti-Israel protesters was gathering near Lexington Avenue in the area by early afternoon, too.
The climate-activist group Extinction Rebellion also disrupted traffic near one of the main checkpoints for the UN conference.
“We did this because we believe the world deserves better,” the group’s organizer, Matthew Menzies, told The Post.
“The United Nations has been working for years trying to address climate change, and they have consistently, particularly the superpowers, global superpowers have consistently failed to meet those goals, to meet sustainability needs,” Menzies said. “And right now, the world is on fire. The people need our help.
“I don’t really know what’s happening in there,” he said of the UN. “Maybe one day, I’ll get to work in there, and I’ll be able to figure it out a little bit better.”
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