Climate Activist Arrested for Solo

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Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates

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John Mark Rozendaal , 63 , and Alec Connon , director of Stop the Money Pipeline , were arrested for criminal contempt in the public park at the bank’s global headquarters in downtown New York on Thursday .

13 other climate activists were detained for alleged obstruction of governmental administration, a misdemeanor criminal charge.

Citi has provided $ 60bn to the companies expanding oil, gas and coal operations since Paris climate agreement.

Teddy Ogborn was arrested and held in a cell for more than eight hours after he filmed an alleged Citi employee apparently inciting violence against climate protesters blocking the entrance.

Citi spokesperson said the protesters’ claims were false and that an employee was initially hit by a barricade before pushing it out of his way.

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