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Back At Zuccotti: The OWS Protester Arrested For "Burn NYC To The F---ing Ground" Threat
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 23, 2011
Modified Nov 23, 2011
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Hey, remember how police arrested Nkrumah Tinsley, an Occupy Wall Street protester, because he was spotted on a video saying, "On [November] 17th, we going to burn New York City to the f-cking ground... In a few days they’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s... They got guns, we got bottles!"? Well, now Tinsley is out... and he's back at Zuccotti Park!
The Daily News reports, "After an appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday morning — where prosecutors said they have not yet presented the case to a grand jury — Tinsley waltzed over to where a group of demonstrators were gathered at the park. He disappeared before the afternoon rain began to fall on the near-empty park." Tinsley managed to make the $7,500 bail and an OWS spokesman "refused to admit" to the News that "they footed the bill to spring Tinsley, saying even they consider him a 'loose cannon,'" saying, "We won’t have anything to do with this guy. Certainly everything we do is centered around us being a peaceful and nonviolent movement."
Still, City Councilman Peter Vallone is unhappy Tinsley's walking around, and Tinsley's owner father says his son has mental health issues, "He’s got to learn. He’s got to pay for what he did."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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