Man Attacked By Guardian Angels Live On Fox News Wasn’t A ‘Migrant’ After All: Police

The man seen tackled by members of the vigilante group Guardian Angels in a viral Fox News clip isn’t a “migrant” and is from New York City, a New York Police Department spokesperson instructed the Associated Press.

The info arrives after former GOP New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, the group’s founder, identified the person as “one of the migrant guys” earlier than members introduced him to the bottom throughout a reside TV interview in Times Square with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday.

Sliwa claimed that the person had been shoplifting earlier than the Guardian Angels gave him “a little pain compliance,” including that the person’s mom “back in Venezuela felt the vibrations.”

But the person, in response to an NYPD spokesperson, is from the Bronx and police didn’t have proof to assist the declare that he had been shoplifting.

“Officers were informed that the male had repeatedly attempted to interfere with and disrupt a live television interview,” the spokesperson instructed NBC News, noting that the person was detained by bystanders and issued a summons as officers noticed him “acting in a loud, disorderly threatening manner” on the sidewalk.

Sliwa, who based the group within the ’70s and misplaced to New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) within the metropolis’s 2021 mayoral election, criticized Adams within the interview for the metropolis’s pay as you go card program for migrants.

He has beforehand admitted that a number of of the group’s “early crime-fighting exploits were actually faked” and as soon as staged his personal kidnapping, The New York Times reported within the early ’90s.

Sliwa was arrested in August throughout a protest over migrant housing within the metropolis.

He instructed NBC News that the person hit a “female Guardian Angel” earlier than different members went and took the particular person down, including that the shoplifting allegation stemmed from what these within the crowd instructed him.

Sliwa mentioned he believed the person was a migrant as a result of he had been “speaking Spanish” and members had beforehand come throughout him with different Spanish audio system, in response to the Associated Press.

Police didn’t reply to the Associated Press’ questions on whether or not members of the group have been underneath investigation following the altercation.