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Black Lives Matter (BLM) Greater New York co-founder Hawk Newsome surrendered to police on Monday morning after being hit with felony assault charges for a local feud that allegedly turned violent last week.<\/p>\n
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) Greater New York co-founder Hawk Newsome surrendered to police on Monday morning after being hit with felony assault charges for a local feud in Harlem<\/a> that allegedly turned violent last week.<\/p>\n Dozens of Newsome\u2019s supporters gathered outside of the 28th Precinct<\/a> in Central Harlem at around 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 27 to watch the activist turn himself over to cops on second-degree assault charges.<\/p>\n Newsome is accused of punching Democratic District Leader William Allen and throwing a megaphone at him on Oct. 23 during a rally outside of Council Member Yusef Salaam\u2019s office<\/a> on West 125th Street. Newsome was leading a rally against the elected official after Salaam pulled funding from a nonprofit organization run by an acquaintance of the activist.<\/p>\n Tiffany Fulton, who founded Silent Voices United, an organization she says helps mentor local youth, told amNewYork that Newsome was leading the demonstration when Salaam\u2019s mother approached and began scolding Newsome.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t tell me about my son!\u201d the senior could be heard yelling in a video shared online as Allen watched on. Newsome could then be seen arguing with Allen before appearing to cock his arm back and making a punching motion; the alleged assault, however, was not visible.<\/p>\n Fulton claimed that Allen ushered Salaam\u2019s mother over to disrupt the rally, which led to Newsome confronting Allen.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you get excited, you\u2019re poking, you\u2019re poking, but you\u2019re pointing. And Hawk was pointing and talking about, why would you bring this woman over here? Why would you do that? Why would you start this? And William grabbed his arm,\u201d Fulton said outside the 28th Precinct stationhouse on Monday morning. \u201cHawk never put his hands on William. And I\u2019m here today because I need to tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n amNewYork reached out to Allen, who said that he would return a phone call but ultimately did not respond before publication time. Salaam\u2019s office likewise did not respond when contacted. Newsome believed he was surrendering on misdemeanor assault charges, but after giving up, discovered that the charges had been upgraded to a felony count because the alleged victim, Allen, is over the age of 65.<\/p>\n When Newsome was escorted out of the rear of the stationhouse in cuffs later that morning, he dubbed the charges a \u201cpolitical attack.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a political attack. I am not even thinking about the charges, I am thinking about Al Sharpton and Yusef Salaam using the same justice system they promised to fight against, against me,\u201d Newsome said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t blame Trump for weaponizing the justice system when you do it yourself,\u201d he yelled before being placed in the back of a police vehicle.\n<\/p>\n Rallying around him outside the 28th Precinct on Monday morning, some of his band of followers \u2014 including Chivona Newsome, Hawk Newsome\u2019s sister and co-founder of BLM Greater New York, bizarrely compared him to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n \u201cThis walk that Hawk will be doing is a warrior\u2019s walk. It\u2019s a walk of martyr. It\u2019s what it\u2019s looked like throughout history when someone has stood up against an oppressive government,\u201d Chivona Newsome said. \u201cWe saw it when the prophets challenged the money, we saw it when any revolutionary has spoken up, and we\u2019ve seen it happen to the greatest activist to ever walk this earth, Jesus Christ, when he stood against a religious and political establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n \t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC04564-copy-2.jpg\" "\\"BLM")
<\/a>Dozens of Newsome\u2019s supporters gathered outside of the 28th Precinct in Central Harlem at around 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 27 to watch the activist turn himself over to cops on 2nd degree assault charges.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n
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<\/a>When Newsome was escorted out of the rear of the stationhouse in cuffs later that morning he dubbed the charges a \u201cpolitical attack.\u201dPhoto by Dean Moses\n<\/p>\n