Adams praises NYPD’s ‘commendable’ conduct at raucous anti-Israeli protest — as accused cop-kicker freed without bail

Mayor Eric Adams on Monday called the NYPD’s conduct at a raucous anti-Israeli protest in Brooklyn “commendable” — as a marcher accused of kicking a cop was freed without bail over prosecutors’ objections.

Adams took to various morning talk shows to defend the cops against allegations of excessive force during the Bay Ridge protest, while acknowledging authorities would look at an “isolated incident” of a cop caught on video pounding a demonstrator pinned to the ground.

“Those police officers did a commendable job under very difficult circumstances,” Hizzoner told 1010 WINS radio.

He blasted the demonstration as “a complete disruption of the Bay Ridge community” — saying 60 911 calls were “held up” because protesters blocked emergency routes, according to a later interview with TV’s NY1.

“I don’t like the fact that people can call for the destruction of America. I don’t like the fact that people can wave terrorist flags. I don’t like any of that,” Adams told WINS — after a man was seen at the protest waving a Hamas terror flag and another flashing the banner of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist group classified as a terror organization.

“But those are protected constitutional rights,” Adams said.

“What you don’t have a right to do is to ride on top of buses, you don’t have the right to spit in the face of police officers, to destroy property, to resist arrest,” he added. “It’s not gonna happen in this city.”

There were 41 people who were arrested or given summonses over the disruptive event, including two suspects — Ava Chinelli and Jakhi Lodgson-McCray — who were held for arraignment. More than a dozen others were immediately released after receiving a later date for their court appearance.

Chinelli, 38, of Astoria, Queens, is accused of illegally blocking the street during the march and then kicking a cop in the knee when the officer tried to arrest her.

Manhattan prosecutors asked that Chinelli be held on $20,000 cash bail or $40,000 bond. She is charged with felony assault, resisting arrest, obstructing government administration and disorderly conduct.

But Judge Dale Fong-Fredrick refused to require the alleged violent protester to post any kind of bail and instead dumped him back on the street under supervised release.

As The Post reported in 2022, the judge is a cosplayer who dons shining armor to do battle as a historical reenactor.

Chinelli declined comment to The Post on Monday.

Lodgson-McCray, 20, of Maplewood, NJ, was arraigned on charges of misdemeanor assault, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct and freed. The raps were not bail-eligible under the state’s controversial criminal-justice reforms, court officials said.

Chinelli has no prior arrests, while Lodgson-McCray has been busted three times previously this year — all protest-related and for resisting, law-enforcement sources said.

The NYPD has also taken heat for its alleged “aggressive” response to the Saturday afternoon protest, which was scheduled as a Palestinian Nakba Day demonstration to mark the start of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948 and viewed by Palestinians as the beginning of their displacement.

But in a scathing post on X on Monday, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said the rowdy crowd threw objects at cops, spit on them and hopped on top of a city bus.

“We will never tolerate any unlawful, illegal and non-peaceful protests,” Daughtry wrote.

“We will not accept the narrative that persons arrested were victims, nor are we going to allow illegal behavior,” the chief said. “Acts committed by 41 people of which 36 were not from the Bay Ridge community or the city of New York.”

Actually, at least 10 of the arrested demonstrators have city addresses, according to law-enforcement sources.

Daughtry noted that many of those cuffed were repeat protest offenders.

“[One-third of those] arrested have prior arrest history for other non-peaceful protests,” he said.

Of the 41 people detained during the protest, 24 were given summonses for disorderly conduct and are required to pay a fine but not appear in court. The other 17 were arrested and charged — with Chinelli and Lodgson-McCray having to immediately be arraigned and the remaining 15 given desk-appearance tickets to appear in court later.

The 15 were identified by law enforcement as:

Fairooz Abourya, 19, of Staten Island, charged with obstructing and disorderly conduct.

Mohamed Bajo, 20, of Manhattan, charged with obstructing, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Samuel Seligson, 32, of Brooklyn, charged with obstruction and disorderly conduct.

Andrew Firestone, 32, of Manhattan, charged with criminal mischief and resisting arrest.

Shehab Alzouqari, 20, of Brooklyn, charged with reckless endangerment.

Rohaan Gill, 28, of Brooklyn, charged with resisting arrest.

Jalal Alfaqih, 27, of Brooklyn, charged with obstructing and resisting arrest.

Ahmed Abdelbaki, 45, of Clifton, New Jersey, charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Mouhamad Beydoun 34, charged with obstructing and resisting arrest.

William Nusbaum, 23, of Kingston, New York, charged with obstructing and resisting arrest.

Alaa Khalil, 26, of Clifton, New Jersey, charged with obstructing and resisting arrest.

Travis Sweatte, 42, of Brooklyn, charged with obstructing and resisting arrest.

Jacob Gabriel, 28, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, charged with obstructing.

Nagi Almthil, 18, of Brooklyn, charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.

Essa Ejelat, 33, of Yonkers New York, charged with obstructing.

Additional reporting by Haley Brown