Dramatic moment NYPD pins protestor to the ground as crowd chants 'SHAME' at pro-Palestine demonstration

NYPD officers pinned a protester down to the ground as the crowd shouted 'shame' at a pro-Palestine demonstration in New York City Saturday afternoon. 

Amongst the chaos, a bearded man wearing a brown-colored hoodie was forcefully slammed to the ground by law enforcement officers, who proceeded to restrain his hands.  

This dramatic moment was captured by numerous demonstrators and reporters present at the march, where the NYPD arrested multiple pro-Palestine protesters. 

The man was later escorted away from the scene, handcuffed, while someone from the crowd angrily yelled, 'racist mother f**ker.' 

The clash occurred during a rowdy Land Day march organized by the pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime (WOL). 

NYPD officers pinned down a protester as the crowd shouted 'shame' at a pro-Palestine demonstration in New York City Saturday afternoon

Amongst the chaos, a bearded man wearing a brown-colored hoodie was forcefully slammed to the ground by law enforcement officers, who proceeded to restrain his hands

The man was later escorted away from the scene, handcuffed, while someone from the crowd angrily yelled, 'racist mother f**ker'

The protester pinned to the ground was 'randomly targeted', according to a witness who shared videos of the arrest on X. 

'NYPD randomly chooses a protester out of the crowd and tackled him to the ground!!!' the person wrote. 

'I saw NYPD randomly target a protester with my own eyes right now! First arrest of the day, his crime? Being on the SIDEWALK!' 

Other disturbing footage shows a protester in a black hoodie sticking his umbrella into the spokes of a police bicycle. 

Moments later, he was forcefully shoved and slammed into a car before being arrested. 

It is not yet known how many arrests were made, but at least six protestors were seen in footage handcuffed by NYPD. 

It is not yet known how many arrests were made, but at least six protestors were seen in footage handcuffed by NYPD

Those chaotic scenes were part of the march organized by WOL on the 48th anniversary of Land Day – an annual event commemorating protests that broke out on March 30, 1976

During one of the arrests, someone from the crowd threw a box at an officer while he was pinning a woman down to a vehicle.  

Those chaotic scenes were part of the march organized by WOL on the 48th anniversary of Land Day – an annual event commemorating protests that broke out on March 30, 1976, against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land. 

Six unarmed Arab demonstrators, including three women, were killed and more than 100 injured by Israeli military and police during protests. 

Saturday also marks the sixth anniversary of the Great March of Return, also known as the 2018-2019 Gaza border protests, where Palestinians marched near the Gaza-Israel border to demand the right of refugees to return to Palestine.  

Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Manhattan, marching from City Hall to Union Square on 14th Street, while dozens of officers from the NYPD's Strategic Response Group Bicycle Squad were deployed.

Witnesses said protesters had to gather outside City Hall Park, because police closed off the entire park before the demonstration started. 

As the rally marched through Soho, they shouted, 'While you are shopping, bombs are dropping.' 

The protesters dispersed at Union Square about three hours after the march began. 

Witnesses said protesters had to gather outside the City Hall Park, because police closed off the entire park before the demonstration started

Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Manhattan, marching from City Hall to Union Square on 14th Street, while dozens of officers from the NYPD's Strategic Response Group Bicycle Squad were deployed

Those chaotic scenes were part of the march organized by WOL on the 48th anniversary of Land Day – an annual event commemorating protests that broke out on March 30, 1976

Earlier this week, Within Our Lifetime announced the protest, calling on people to 'flood City Hall for Gaza.' 

The group wrote: 'Honoring our ceaseless anti-colonial struggle, we affirm on Land Day that the fight for Palestinian Liberation is a fight to free every inch of the land from the river to the sea.

'As we chant: Whose streets? Our streets! Whose land? Our land! We refuse to slow down our movement until the genocide ends, until siege is lifted on Gaza, until all refugees return to their homeland, until Palestine is free,' the post reads. 

The protest announcement came after the group caused major chaos in New York City on New Year's Day this year when they instructed participants to flood JFK's Terminal 4. 

More than 25,000 women and children have been killed in Gaza since the October 7th attack, according to estimates by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.