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Wild footage shows ‘unruly’ migrant mob scuffling with NY cops at hotel shelter
Yonkers police arrested a pair of rowdy migrants at a Ramada Inn hotel housing Big Apple asylum seekers in the Westchester County city — while getting berated in Spanish by a rowdy mob.
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Wild footage shows ‘unruly’ migrant mob scuffling with NY cops at hotel shelter
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Published April 11, 2024, 6:42 p.m. ET
Newly released police bodycam footage captures the moment cops in Yonkers are forced to scuffle with a group of rowdy migrants at a local hotel packed with asylum seekers.
Police busted two people during the Tuesday afternoon melee at a local Ramada Inn — but not before they were surrounded and berated in Spanish by an unruly migrant mob, the footage shows.
Cops were called to the hotel shortly before 1 p.m. on reports of an out-of-control guest.
“The guy is over here unruly,” a Ramada employee said during a 911 call. “He’s being very violent with everybody. He’s throwing stuff at everybody. We need somebody here right away.”
4 Migrant Arnal Kent, 35, was charged with menacing and disorderly conduct for allegedly going off at the Ramada Inn in Yonkers on Tuesday afternoon. NY Post
4 Yonkers police received a call of an unruly person at the Ramada Inn hotel and arrested Arnal Kent, 35, on Tuesday. NY Post
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The footage shows the officers walking into the lobby, where they grabbed Arnal Kent, 35, and took him into custody while surrounded by a crew of other migrants.
“Why does he have to hit me?” Kent is heard jawing in Spanish as he struggles to get away. “They’re not taking me. They’re not taking me. I’m not doing anything.”
That’s when a migrant woman — identified as 24-year-old Yainilet Hernandez — pushes the officers, then blocks the door of the police vehicle to bar cops from putting Kent inside.
Yonkers cops manage to get the handcuffed suspect inside — then let things cool down, the video shows.
After a few minutes, they go back to Hernandez and try to cuff her, only to have her try to fight off the cops, who are forced to take her to the ground to put the handcuffs on to the taunts of the bystanders.
Kent was charged with menacing, disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration and released without bail, police said.
