A vandal torched 11 NYPD police cars in a Brooklyn parking lot just down the street from a police stationhouse early Thursday, police said.
At a press conference at the lot near the 83rd Precinct stationhouse on Knickerbocker Ave. and Bleecker St. in Bushwick, Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch decried the brazen act of vandalism, which the mayor tied to the ongoing anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles.
“This is unacceptable,” Adams said. “We have stated over and over again, everyone has a right to peaceful protest. You do not have a right to destroy property of the City of New York. We have reasons to believe the person who participated in this act is connected to some of the protests that’s taking place in Los Angeles and throughout the entire country,” he added…