{"id":257511,"date":"2026-06-06T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257511\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:21:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-26-people-arrested-at-rowdy-knicks-msg-watch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257511\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 26 People Arrested At Rowdy Knicks Msg Watch Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An estimated 6,500 people gathered outside Madison Square Garden Friday night for the Knicks watch party, creating large and increasingly disorderly crowds throughout Midtown, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the first arrests happened before the game began, when two people were taken into custody for assault and another was arrested for climbing a light pole.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As the Knicks game ended, police reported a rise in disruptive behavior.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"> One individual allegedly jumped over a barrier, refused to leave the area and struck an officer in the face. The officer sustained facial lacerations and required medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police also arrested several people accused of selling counterfeit Knicks merchandise. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One of those individuals was found carrying a loaded firearm.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Crowds blocked vehicle traffic along 7th and 8th avenues, stretching from 31st Street to 35th Street, with people climbing on food carts, light poles and subway entrances. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say multiple individuals refused to comply with orders and resisted arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In total, 26 people were taken into custody. Of those, 17 were arrested and charged, while nine received criminal court summonses for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An estimated 6,500 people gathered outside Madison Square Garden Friday night for the Knicks watch party, creating large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-257511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257511","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=257511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}