BLM Greater NY founder Hawk Newsome arrested after berating officer at NYPD officer’s manslaughter hearing: ‘You a vagina!’
A New York Black Lives Matter founder spewed vile abuse and threatened to “beat the sh-t” out of a court officer in a shocking caught-on-camera attack that landed him in handcuffs.
Hawk Newsome was arrested at Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday when he went berzerk after arriving to watch a hearing for an NYPD sergeant accused of killing a man with thrown cooler last summer.
“You think I’m scared of you? I’ll beat the s–t out of you. You must be out of your f–king mind,” an enraged Newsome was filmed screaming as he towered over the officer.
“You see how I’m all up on you? You’re a vagina … F–king vagina.”
A number of court officers and cops could be seen trying to de-escalate the situation, a clip posted on social media shows.
At one point, Newsome was filmed grabbing a female cop’s hand and batting it away after the officer apparently tried to move on a woman who was with Newsome.
Newsome was slapped with three summonses for disorderly conduct in the wake of the caught-on-camera saga, CBS reported.
The dramatic ordeal unfolded after a hearing for NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran, who was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the August 2023 death of scooter-riding drug suspect Eric Duprey.
The cop, who has pleaded not guilty, was indicted after tossing the cooler at Duprey as he fled a drug bust in the Bronx, striking him in the head and causing him to crash.
Dozens of uniformed NYPD officers packed the courtroom Tuesday for Duran’s latest hearing.
Footage showed Newsome and other activists consoling Duprey’s sobbing relatives in the wake of the hearing.
Newsome later claimed the chaos broke out when an New York State Court officer, who he identified as a cop, came over to the group and said, “You got to move.”
“So I had words with him to defend the family. You’re not going to re-traumatize them,” the BLM founder said in an Instagram video.
“They got excited. They arrested me.”
“I’m not going to sit here and try and not say I wasn’t vocal. Yes, I was vocal. I care a lot. A man was smashed in the head with a cooler and killed,” Newsome added in an interview with CBS.
The clip of Newsome spewing abuse at the cop sparked outrage on social media, with Councilwoman Vickie Paladino calling it “beyond absurd.”
“If you are within reach of an officer’s firearm and behaving in an unambiguously hostile and threatening manner like this, you should be tased at the very least,” she tweeted.
“It is beyond absurd that our police have to put up with this. Showing even an ounce of deference to this kind of abject hostility only invites more, and makes the job that much more dangerous.”
Newsome has made headlines in the past for his fired-up rhetoric.
The BLM leader notoriously threatened “riots,” “fire” and “bloodshed” if Mayor Eric Adams cracked down on crime back in 2021.
