{"id":1078714,"date":"2021-12-02T23:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T04:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078714"},"modified":"2021-12-02T23:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T04:13:57","slug":"video-nyc-woman-accused-of-driving-through-blm-protesters-rejects-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-nyc-woman-accused-of-driving-through-blm-protesters-rejects-plea-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: NYC Woman Accused of Driving Through BLM Protesters Rejects Plea Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-nyc-woman-accused-of-driving-through-blm-protesters-rejects-plea-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078714&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/black-lives-matter-blm-protest-kentucky-32020-AP-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A New York City woman accused of driving her BMW through 50 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters in 2020 rejected a plea deal and will stand trial, the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10265035\/NYC-woman-hit-BLM-protestors-rejects-plea-deal-favor-trial.html\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-three-year-old Kathleen Casillo appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court this week after being accused of driving into the individuals amid the protest taking place at the intersection of 39th Street and Third Avenue on December 11, 2020, the outlet said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cCasillo, of Howard Beach, Queens, has claimed the demonstrators had come up to her car and called her \u2018a white privilege b**ch\u2019 before banging on the vehicle,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She explained to officers at the time she felt panicked and hit the gas as they began banging on the vehicle and attempting to open the doors. Damage to the BMW sedan was visible in pictures of the occurrence, the article continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She was offered a deal which would have seen her complete six days community service, and have her license suspended for a year, but turned it down, meaning a jury will now decide the matter.&nbsp;Casillo was issued no more than a desk appearance ticket for the incident and was released only hours after her arrest. Her 29-year-old daughter was also in the car at the time, but was not charged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In addition, Casillo was charged with reckless assault in the third degree in February. She is scheduled to return to court on January 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5384615384615\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Queens woman who drove through Manhattan BLM protest turns down plea deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B9Gh3RZYWj\">https:\/\/t.co\/B9Gh3RZYWj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zsNH1Q3Xsz\">pic.twitter.com\/zsNH1Q3Xsz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1466383103295959053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The protest march began in Times Square and was supposed to bring attention to a hunger strike by immigration detainees inside a jail located in New Jersey, the Associated Press (AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/driver-arrested-after-car-plows-into-manhattan-protesters\/\">reported<\/a> in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">BLM protesters were seen outside the court room Wednesday \u201cas they awaited justice for Casillo\u2019s actions,\u201d the <em>Mail<\/em> article read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She was captured on camera allegedly driving through the demonstration in 2020 that resulted in at least nine protesters being hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Video footage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_U26a-Lccw\">showed<\/a>&nbsp;the moments before the incident occurred:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Driver Arrested After Protesters Struck By Car In Murray Hill\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M_U26a-Lccw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cLast year on Dec. 11, Kathleen Casillo drove her car at top speed through a crowd of human beings. I was one of those human beings\u2014I never saw her coming,\u201d Roque Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, Casillo claimed she was the victim in the incident, and drove away once protesters started attacking her vehicle as she tried to drive down a public street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City woman accused of driving her BMW through 50 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters in 2020 rejected a plea deal and will stand trial, the Daily Mail &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}