{"id":55120,"date":"2025-11-28T22:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55120\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:45:17","slug":"arrests-made-as-pro-palestinian-protesters-burst-into-zara-store-on-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55120\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests made as pro-Palestinian protesters burst into ZARA store on Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The New York City<\/a> Police Department (NYPD) confirmed at least four people were arrested after a group of pro-Palestinian agitators allegedly burst into a ZARA store in New York City on Black Friday, blowing whistles and waving a Palestinian flag.<\/p>\n

“They fund the genocide, Free Palestine!” one woman could be heard screaming inside the store.<\/p>\n

“ZARA is a genocidal company,” another protester shrieked<\/a> while blowing a whistle at employees.<\/p>\n

NYPD officials told Fox News Digital officers responded to the scheduled demonstration near the popular fashion store at Fifth Avenue<\/a> in Midtown Manhattan and determined there were about 70 protesters boycotting Black Friday.<\/p>\n

\"Protester <\/p>\n

A protester was seen on video blowing a whistle inside a New York City ZARA store on Black Friday. <\/p>\n

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As tensions rose, several protesters barged into the ZARA store and were seen on video quickly being ushered out by police officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of 4 p.m. local time, the group is continuing to noisily march south on Fifth Avenue, on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

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Pro-Palestinian protesters gather on Black Friday outside a busy Microsoft store in New York City. <\/p>\n

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The same protesters were later seen on video chanting outside the Microsoft store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We will not be complicit in the exploitation of our neighbors, including children,” an agitator yelled. “Black children. Brown children.<\/a> We say no more. And we say shame!”<\/p>\n

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Protesters enter ZARA store in New York City on Black Friday as part of a pro-Palestinian demonstration. <\/p>\n

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A man on the street could be heard telling protesters, “f— you, you piece of s—-. All of you are \u2026” before smiling and walking away.<\/p>\n

An investigation is ongoing, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital journalist who covers breaking news, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.<\/p>\n

She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New York City Police Department (NYPD) confirmed at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5990,303,75,84,83,9,24,63,3286,618,1994],"class_list":{"0":"post-55120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-black-friday","9":"tag-crime","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-police-and-law-enforcement","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-protests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55120","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=55120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}