A Frequent police agitators On Wednesday, he was arrested for allegedly throwing a burning hat at the home of an NYPD officer during a protest against alleged mistreatment of protesters by police officers at an earlier rally.
Terrell Harper, 42, and other protesters appeared outside the police officer's home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Monday night after the officer “put his hands on protesters” during a separate rally at the police station a day earlier, Harper claimed on social media.
An NYPD spokesperson said the known police provocateur was “standing in the front yard with a group of protesters and chanting for the victim to come out.”
“He then took a cap, set it on fire and threw it away,” the spokesperson said.
According to videos posted online, protesters outside the policeman's home chanted “We want Justin” and yelled for him to come out, in an apparent attempt to intimidate the officer.
“It's all about them scaring us. It's all about forcing them to quit their jobs, you know what I mean?” Harper later boasted about the protest outside the police's house in a video posted on Instagram. “Nobody can stop them from forcing us back to that (police's) house.”
At some point during the night's raging protests, Harper reportedly threw a burning hat toward a window of the house. It's unclear where it fell.
The policeman whose home was targeted was stationed outside the 73rd Precinct House during a protest against the NYPD on Sunday. Shot at a suspect armed with a knife On September 15, two innocent pedestrians were shot in a crowded subway car.
Harper, Joe A lawsuit filed by an Asian police officer in 2021 He made racist comments against the police officer, accusing him of being excessively aggressive and using his hand on protesters.
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“He acted very aggressively, he spit at us. He was telling us he can't mess with us and we're people — we're the people he's signed up to protect,” she said in the Instagram video. “So we just had to let him know we're not messing with him.”
The officer had no involvement in the “friendly fire” police firing on September 15, in which one of them was killed Innocent victims are battling for lifeAccording to a police source and even Harper himself, this incident has occurred.
“He didn't even fire a bullet on the metro. He just raised his hand on the protesters,” he admitted.
Harper was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with burglary, coercion, inciting a riot, aggravated harassment, criminal mischief, tampering, arson and menacing, police said.
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A police source said the targeted official's house was under police surveillance for extra security.
But Harper warned in his video that he plans to send more officers to conduct door-to-door inquiries.
He laughed and said, “Now we will go to everyone's house at that station and meet them.”
However, Harper was charged with intimidation and harassment on Tuesday for threatening another policeman.
According to court documents, he allegedly told an NYPD sergeant: “You're next. I'm coming to your house” and “Don't you know what I did last night?”, an apparent reference to the Sunset Park house protests.
The targeted protests were strongly criticised by police supporters.
“This episode is further proof that these anti-police activists aren’t really interested in ‘justice’ or ‘accountability’ — they’re just trying to stop police officers from doing our jobs by targeting us for harassment or worse,” PBA President Patrick Hendry said in a statement.
“We are working to ensure that those who terrorised our brother and his family are brought to justice.”
