{"id":188273,"date":"2026-04-07T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188273\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:39:49","slug":"15-arrested-in-anti-ice-passover-protest-takeover-of-palantirs-manhattan-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188273\/","title":{"rendered":"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir\u2019s Manhattan lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC01972-copy.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Protesters arrested at rally against ICE\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir's Manhattan lobby 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen protesters participating in a special Passover seder condemning ICE operations were cuffed in Manhattan on Monday night after the participants occupied the lobby of Palantir\u2019s headquarters and refused to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen protesters participating in a special Passover seder condemning <a href=\"https:\/\/ice.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ICE<\/a> operations were cuffed in Manhattan on Monday night after the participants occupied the lobby of Palantir\u2019s headquarters and refused to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The hours-long event began earlier in the day, around 5 p.m. on April 6, at Union Square for the sixth night of Passover and was held by Jews for Racial &amp; Economic Justice for a \u201cSeder in the Streets.\u201d Attended by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a host of other elected officials, protesters looked to condemn <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">President Trump\u2019s ongoing immigration crackdown.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many New Yorkers, that freedom feels out of reach, whether it be freedom from a suffocating cost of living crisis, freedom from a rising tide of anti-semitism or freedom from the brutality of ICE,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cIt\u2019s a history of fighting back against the brutality of ICE and the raids across our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137842014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_4161-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"988\" title=\"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir's Manhattan lobby 2\"  \/>The protest set off from Union Square.Photo by Dean Moses <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137842026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_3705-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1040\" title=\"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir's Manhattan lobby 3\"  \/>The protest set off from Union Square.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>Following several speeches, a few hundred demonstrators marched through the streets to 45 West 18th St., which houses Palantir, an AI company that has been heavily criticized for providing the technology ICE uses to identify those they detain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of other activists had already entered the building\u2019s lobby in a sit-in. The group refused to leave until the company agreed to cut ties with the federal government. For several hours, a crowd waited outside as those inside refused to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have many pharaohs in our midst, and their hearts have been hardened. But we also have the fiery power of the people. The Exodus story teaches us that freeing ourselves and our neighbors from enslavement requires organized resistance. As our comrade Joshua Blaine sings, \u201cWe get there together or never get there at all,\u201d the protest organizers wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD officers arrived on scene and began taking those occupying the lobby into custody as those outside sang protest songs.\n<\/p>\n<p>Together, police say 15 individuals were arrested and taken to the NYPD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd7pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">7th Precinct<\/a>, where they were given court summons.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137842020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC01905-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir's Manhattan lobby 4\"  \/>Protesters were cuffed in the lobby.Photo by Dean Moses <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137842017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_4581-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"847\" title=\"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir's Manhattan lobby 5\"  \/>Protesters were arrested.Photo by Dean Moses <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137842018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_4642-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"988\" title=\"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir's Manhattan lobby 6\"  \/>Protesters were arrested.Photo by Dean Moses <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137842023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC02007-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1010\" title=\"15 arrested in anti-ICE Passover protest takeover of Palantir's Manhattan lobby 7\"  \/>Protesters were arrested.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen protesters participating in a special Passover seder condemning ICE operations were cuffed in Manhattan on Monday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[101,2035,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,104,6986],"class_list":{"0":"post-188273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-ice","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-protest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}