NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A vandal dressed in all black broke away from a protest in lower Manhattan Friday night and smashed a Starbucks window as three other people stood watch, surveillance video shows.
Surveillance footage obtained by the New York Post shows the four people — two of whom are carrying umbrellas — run out of a crowd and onto the sidewalk in front of a Starbucks in SoHo.
One of them then smashes the coffee shop’s windows, the footage shows. The NYPD on Saturday said eight businesses in lower Manhattan were damaged during Friday night’s protests, including the Starbucks.
Eight people were arrested during the protest, on charges ranging from rioting to possession of a graffiti instrument, the NYPD said. It wasn’t immediately clear if the person who broke the Starbucks window was arrested.
The protest happened two days after Rochester, New York’s mayor suspended seven police officers amid an investigation into the death of 41-year-old Daniel Prude.
Prude died on March 30, seven days after police officers handcuffed him, put a spit hood over his head and pressed his face into the pavement during an arrest.