Police arrested a fan of the NYPD on Tuesday after she was caught painting “Police Lives Matter” on a lower Manhattan sidewalk, officials said.
Cops were called to the corner of Chambers and Centre Streets outside City Hall Park about 12:50 p.m. after the the 66-year-old woman Asian woman was seen using a paintbrush to write out her pro-cop slogan.
The woman was also carrying a sign with the same message in English and Chinese, officials said.
Cops took her into custody without incident, officials said.
She’s expected to be charged with making graffiti and criminal mischief — the same crimes anti-cop protesters have been hit with when some have been
caught scrawling messages like “F--- the police” and “All Cops Are Bastards” on buildings, vehicles and city property during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations sparked
by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
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