Former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son was among the rowdy anti-ICE protesters taken into custody after a raucous demonstration at a Manhattan Hilton hotel Tuesday, The Post has learned.
Dante de Blasio, 29, was cited for trespassing and disorderly conduct after police moved in on the mob, which mistakenly believed federal immigration agents were holed up at the Hilton Garden Inn in Tribeca, sources said.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son was among the rowdy anti-ICE protesters taken into custody after a raucous demonstration at a Manhattan Hilton hotel Tuesday, The Post has learned. Dean Moses
Dante de Blasio, 29, was cited for trespassing and disorderly conduct after police moved in on the mob, which mistakenly believed federal immigration agents were holed up at the Hilton Garden Inn in Tribeca, sources said. WireImage
In all, 66 protesters were taken into custody, with only two being issued desk appearance tickets while the rest received summonses, according to police.
De Blasio, a Yale grad who was paid $650 a week to help out on his dad’s botched presidential bid in 2019, was issued a summons and released, according to sources.
“I’ll keep it simple: ICE’s violent and authoritarian tactics are unamerican,” the former mayor’s son told The Post in a text message Thursday, when asked about his trouble with the law. “Clamping down on protests and murdering citizens for the crime of speaking out and protesting is a direct contradiction of the founding principles of our country. ICE has no place in New York City.”
The protest came in the wake of two fatal shootings by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, which has sparked a new round of demonstrations in several cities.
In all, 66 protesters were taken into custody, with only two being issued desk appearance tickets while the rest received summonses, according to police. Olga Fedorova/EPA/Shutterstock
Hilton was targetted because the hotel chain cut ties with one Minnesota franchise that banned immigration agents after the shooting.
The younger de Blasio raised eyebrows in 2019 when he penned a rambling anti-cop op-ed piece for USA Today, claiming he was bizarrely intimidated by a police cruiser that passed him in San Francisco.
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His dad was later forced to deny reports that he had the NYPD chauffeur his son to and from Yale University — saying Dante only got the free rides because there were threats against the Big Apple’s first family.
The former mayor didn’t return a request for comment Wednesday, either.
— Additional reporting by Amanda Woods