The anti-police agitator wanted for trying to bust into the Brooklyn home of a cop targeted by a group of protesters has been arrested, police said Thursday.
Terrell Harper, 42, was charged Wednesday with attempted burglary, criminal mischief, menacing, criminal trespass and harassment. He pleaded not guilty and was later released on $10,000 bail.
Harper was among a group of protesters Monday night, police said, who gathered outside the Sunset Park home of an officer whose name and address had been posted on social media.
The officer, according to social media, had the night before put his hands on protesters when they demonstrated outside the 73rd Precinct stationhouse in Brownsville because they were angry about the Sept. 15 subway shooting in which two other officers opened fire, wounding a fare evader who confronted them with a knife.
One of the officers and two innocent bystanders were also shot.
Harper, according to the criminal complaint filed in court, tried to enter the cop’s home by opening the front door, then kicked the door, touched the windows and yelled at the cop.
“Come outside,” he allegedly said. “Show us how tough you are. … Put one of your hands on one of us, you will see what happens.
“I will f–k you up.”
Police said Harper also set a ski cap on fire and threw it.
“You all shot the subway up — we didn’t do it,” Harper later said in a social media video. “Now we’re going to start doing house visits to everyone in that goddamn [police] station.”
“It’s all about making them feel it,” Harper added. “It’s all about making them scared of us. It’s all about making them quit their f–king job.”
Harper, police said, was picked up Tuesday night at a pro-Palestinian protest near the United Nations. Police said he was threatening cops when he was taken into custody.
Harper, who lives in Neptune, N.J., in 2021 was caught on camera mocking an Asian-American detective assigned to a demonstration near the historic Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.
Detective Vincent Chung later sued Harper, but the suit was dismissed, with the judge finding Harper’s comments offensive but saying they were protected by the First Amendment.
In 2022, Harper in an Instagram Stories post said he couldn’t wait for a cop to die so he could “f–k up their funeral.”
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