Activists arrested during Earth Day protest outside Trump Tower in Midtown 5%

By Thomas Tracy44% Colin Mixson68%

4/22/2026, 8:15:16 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Quote-first Misdirection, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 16.5% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 116 faulty-reasoning hits from 194 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 19.9% and a BS Rank of 5% (16,064 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.50% of the article peer group.

An Earth Day protest outside Trump Tower in Midtown ended in arrests on Wednesday, cops said. 
A group of about 35 protestors sat in traffic outside the Fifth Ave. skyscraper near E. 56th St. to protest the Trump administration’s environmental policies around 12:50 p.m., according to law enforcement. 
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion protest outside Trump Tower by blocking Fifth Ave. in Manhattan on Wednesday. 
(Barry Williams/ New York Daily News) 
Video uploaded by APT News to YouTube shows a line of protestors holding signs that read “Activists not terrorists” and “Trump is the terrorist” as they sit in the road blocking traffic. 
Police can be seen restraining the activists using flex cuffs before loading them onto a waiting NYPD bus. 
An NYPD spokesman could not immediately say how many activists were taken into custody or how they were charged. 
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion are arrested for blocking Fifth Ave. outside Trump Tower in Manhattan during a protest Wednesday. 
(Barry Williams/ New York Daily News) 
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion protest outside Trump Tower on Wednesday. 
(Barry Williams/ New York Daily News) 
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