CUNY professor charged in Brooklyn protest melee
A judge has suggested that an award-winning poet from Brooklyn who works as a professor at Baruch College may have been the victim of circumstance as he participated in a march over the Brooklyn Bridge at which some unruly acts were committed.
At Saturday’s protest over recent police-involved deaths, a backpack was found that police traced to the home of Eric Linsker, 29, who was arrested early Sunday and charged with assault on a police officer and resisting arrest in connection with two officers.
Tens of thousands of people participated in the march on Saturday, which was largely peaceful.