Marcher tased in rough nab
Mandela’s youngest daughter dies at 59
An NYPD officer threw a Black Lives Matter protester to the ground and tased him during a chaotic march where protesters clashed with pro-cop demonstrators in Brooklyn, video shows.
Police say Robert Bolden was stunned with the Taser after he hurled a helmet at a police officer about 15 seconds earlier.
Bolden was arrested and charged with assault, reckless endangerment, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct, authorities said. He was awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
The man’s friends told the Daily News that his shoulder was dislocated during the tasing incident.
“He was in the crowd throwing a helmet at the cops,” an NYPD spokesman said, adding that no officers were hit by the helmet.
In a video of the alleged incident provided by the NYPD, a protester can be seen throwing what appears to be a white construction helmet in the direction of pro-cop protesters — but the scene is on Fourth Ave. and 65th St., several blocks over from where the tasing occurred on Fifth Ave. and 68th St.
Mayor de Blasio said his office was aware of the incident during his Monday press briefing.
“I saw the video from Bay Ridge. I did not like what I saw at all. That’s obviously under investigation, and as soon as we have more on that we’ll announce it,” he said.
Another BLM protester, Joseph Brown, 37, was arrested during the protest and charged with assault, tampering with physical evidence, resisting arrest, menacing and a slew of other charges.
Brown “struck a police officer in the right ear with an egg as they were trying to prevent anti-police protesters from coming toward pro-police officers,” an NYPD spokesman said.
The officer involved suffered a cut to his ear, cops said.
Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), whose district represents Bay Ridge, said in a tweet that he is meeting Monday with police brass from the 68th Precinct, which covers the neighborhood.
He has asked de Blasio and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea to investigate what went down.
“I am disturbed by the violence tonight in #BayRidge,” Brannan tweeted Sunday night.
Brown and Bolden were the only two people arrested during the chaotic protest despite dozens of videos posted on social media showing violent clashes between pro-cop demonstrators and BLM protesters.
Jarrett Payne, 34, of Far Rockaway, was waiting for Bolden’s arraignment at Brooklyn Criminal Court on Monday. She described Sunday’s protest as “hectic.”
“A black woman with braids got maced. Another woman on our side got punched,” Payne said. “We went down to confront them and the NYPD over police brutality and crimes against humanity.”
Payne said the skirmish began as Bolden was filming, got shoved by an officer and was tased after asking a cop why he had been shoved.
Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela and the South African ambassador to Denmark, died Monday. She was 59. “Zindzi will not only be remembered as a daughter of our struggle heroes, Tata Nelson and Mama Winnie Mandela, but as a struggle heroine in her own right. She served South Africa well,” Naledi Pandor, the minister of international relations, said in a statement.
Her cause of death is unknown.
Mandela (inset) was born in 1960 to Nelson, South Africa’s first black president, and Winnie, an anti-apartheid activist.
In February 1985, she stood in front of a crowd to read a letter from her father, who had been imprisoned when she was 18 months old, refusing then-president PW Botha’s offer for conditional release.
Mandela has served as the ambassador since 2015, a tenure that was marked by controversy last year when she called for white-owned land to be returned to black South Africans.
Mandela, who died at a hospital in Johannesburg, is survived by a husband and four children,