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‘Protester’ Who Made Terroristic Threats on Live TV Is a Brooklyn Lawyer

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

New York’s legal profession attracts top-quality people:

A George Floyd protester was arrested after he made a threat on live television to burn down Manhattan’s ritzy Diamond District, cops said Sunday.
Israel Burns, 34, of Bath Beach, Brooklyn, was arrested about 8 p.m. on Saturday after he was interviewed on Fox News earlier in the day and threatened to burn down the Diamond District if the mayor and governor didn’t come to speak to a crowd gathered at Barclays Center, video shows.
“Today, I’m giving a demonstration from Barclays Center at 6 p.m. to City Hall, and that’s the first stop and we’re hoping de Blasio and Cuomo come out and talk to us and give the youth some direction,” he told the reporter.
“But if they don’t, then [the] next stop is the Diamond District,” he said. “And gasoline, thanks to Trump, is awfully cheap. So we’re giving them a chance right now to do the right thing.”
Cops arrested the man, who identified himself on the video as “Ace Burns,” after identifying him by his distinctive face mask, authorities said.
Burns was charged with making terroristic threats and aggravated harassment.

In case you don’t know, New York’s “Diamond District” — the neighborhood of 47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue — is largely Jewish, so that this threat was implicitly anti-Semitic.

 

Gateway Pundit broke the news today that Israel Adam “Ace” Burns is a Brooklyn attorney, who graduated from Rutgers Law School and appears to have many influential friends:

 

After graduating from Rutgers Law School with honors, he was hired as an Associate at the prestigious New York office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, an international law firm with well over 800 attorneys around the world. He practiced in the Litigation and Employment Law departments and personally handled some of the largest clients in the world including Prudential, Deloitte, and T-Mobile.

Recall last week that two Brooklyn lawyers, one of them a Princeton alumnus, were charged with attempting to firebomb a police car.


 

 

Category: Crime, New York, Racism

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