Heshy Tischler was arrested Sunday night, soon after Yom Tov concluded.
Tischler’s arrest comes following his announcement on Friday that he was informed by the NYPD that he would in fact be able to turn himself in on Monday.
Hundreds of Orthodox Jews rallied in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood on several nights this past week to protest the restrictions.
The official Twitter account of the NYPD tweeted the following out:
The New York City Police Department Warrant Squad has taken Harold “Heshy” Tischler into custody. He will be charged with inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an assault of a journalist that took place on October 7, 2020 in Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/cLkfcBpZUu
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) October 12, 2020
The New York City Police Department Warrant Squad has taken Harold “Heshy” Tischler into custody. He will be charged with inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an assault of a journalist that took place on October 7, 2020 in Brooklyn.
One of the organizers of those demonstrations, Heshy Tischler, said Friday on social media that he had agreed to surrender to police next week amid allegations that he had instigated an attack on an Orthodox Jewish journalist during the protests.
Also reporting on this issue, Far Left slanted Daily Beast:
On Tuesday, Jacob Kornbluh, a respected journalist for Jewish Insider, was surrounded by the mob, allegedly at Tischler’s urging.
“Literally hundreds of members of the community tried to beat me up,” Kornbluh told The Daily Beast afterward. “Somebody hit me in the head. I was kicked, dragged, and people were saying I deserved to die… calling me Hitler [and a] Nazi.”
“It took about 10 minutes for the police officers to get me out of the crowd,” he added.
Kornbluh filed an assault complaint, and as the days passed, the question of why Tischler had not been arrested grew louder—particularly after photos showed him posing with police officers after the protests.
Tischler claims, with no apparent evidence, that Kornbluh harassed him. “I’ll be going into prison,” he said in his Twitter video on Friday. “I will, of course, be pleading not guilty.”
Tischler’s arrest comes as city officials began enforcing the new COVID rules in earnest. Dozens of summonses with fines totaling more than $150,000 were issued this weekend to houses of worship and businesses in the so-called red zones.