
Man Attacked By Guardian Angels Live On Fox News Wasn't A 'Migrant' After All: Police
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Curtis Sliwa, founder of the vigilante group seen in the clip, has previously admitted to faking several crimes for publicity including his own kidnapping.
The man seen tackled by members of the vigilante group Guardian Angels in a viral Fox News clip is not a “migrant” and is from New York City, a New York Police Department spokesperson told the Associated Press.
The information arrives after former GOP New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, the group’s founder, pointed out the man as “one of the migrant guys” before members brought him to the ground during a live TV interview in Times Square with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday.
Sliwa claimed that the man had been shoplifting before the Guardian Angels gave him “a little pain compliance,” adding that the man’s mother “back in Venezuela felt the vibrations.”
But the man, according to an NYPD spokesperson, is from the Bronx and police didn’t have evidence to support the claim that he had been shoplifting.
“Officers were informed that the male had repeatedly attempted to interfere with and disrupt a live television interview,” the spokesperson told NBC News, noting that the man was detained by bystanders and issued a summons as officers saw him “acting in a loud, disorderly threatening manner” on the sidewalk.













