Woman Holding Trump Sign Arrested for Allegedly Attacking Family Outside Lower Manhattan Courthouse

Scenes at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on March 20, 2023. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A woman holding a pro-Trump sign allegedly pulled a knife on a family with two small children after an argument broke out outside a Lower Manhattan courthouse.

The lone woman was seen on March 28 protesting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s attempt to charge former president Donald Trump, outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, reported Politico.

A courthouse official said a couple with two small children in strollers accidentally bumped into the individual while crossing the intersection of Hogan Place and Centre Street shortly after 4 p.m.

The female suspect, who held a sign reading “I support Trump, do you?” was allegedly arguing with two women, as described in some reports, and a man and woman in other reports, before pulling out a 6-inch blade and waving it at the family, eyewitnesses reportedly said.

Police and court officials did not initially release the protester’s name, age, or other personal information, but the suspect has since been identified as Angelica Rucker.

“Angelica Rucker pulled a knife from her right side belt hip area and began menacing one of the complainants with the knife as the verbal confrontation pursued,” a court spokesperson said, Politico reported.

Court security officers standing guard outside the building rushed over and pulled out their pistols, ordering the woman to drop the knife, bystanders told reporters.

She was arrested without incident. No injuries have been reported.

Rucker was immediately placed in custody and charges are pending, according to officials.

“The court officers were standing on the corner and within 20 seconds, they were here and she had dropped the knife,” said an eyewitness to Politico.

“The woman yelled, ‘Knife, knife’ and the court officers were on the Trump-supporter like Voltron.”

Protests Continue After Manhattan DA Looks Into Indicting Trump

Protests have been ongoing since it was revealed earlier this month that Bragg has a grand jury examining Trump’s role in an alleged 2016 hush money payment to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels involving Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen.

Protest activity has so far been largely muted, with no sign that Bragg or the grand jury will indict Trump anytime soon.

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The grand jury was let off for a month holiday after two weeks of speculation over whether the 45th President would be charged with a crime.

The hiatus is scheduled, as the grand jury only hears evidence on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Meanwhile, Politico reported that the group had heard testimony on March 27 and is set to examine evidence in a separate matter on March 30.

Most of the pro-Trump protestors outside the courthouse in Downtown Manhattan have been far outnumbered by the left-wing activists calling for Bragg to indict Trump.

The former Trump attorney Cohen has told prosecutors that he personally handed $130,000 to the former adult film star to earn her silence.

Bragg is reportedly seeking an indictment against Trump based on the allegation that he falsified business records, by writing off the Daniels payment as legal fees to Cohen.

Cohen’s former attorney, Robert Costello, recently went before the grand jury and disclosed information that described the opposite of what Cohen was claiming, and made note that his former client was a convicted perjurer.

Trump has denied wrongdoing in regards to the payments made to Daniels and has repeatedly claimed that the payments were “not a campaign violation,” but only a “simple private transaction.”

Last week, Trump claimed that Bragg had “dropped” the probe, calling it a “fake case,” while speaking with reporters at a campaign rally in Waco, Texas.

Bragg Under Fire For Behavior With Grand Jury

Meanwhile, the Manhattan DA was recently accused of allegedly hiding nearly 600 pages of exculpatory evidence to the grand jury investigating Trump, while the announcement of any indictment has been repeatedly delayed.

Bragg’s critics, while pointing to his being a “Soros-funded prosecutor,” have been blasting him for not enforcing the law in Manhattan and letting criminals run free, while spending time and taxpayer dollars in his case against Trump.

High profile Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has criticized Bragg’s behavior as one of “the greatest abuse of prosecutorial discretion—and I have seen plenty, this is the worst,” he told Fox News’ Gregg Jarrett.

He accused the Manhattan DA of rewriting the law and turning a misdemeanor records violation into a felony.

”The head of the KGB put it precisely when he said to Stalin: ‘Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.’ Thats’s what’s going on here,” Dershowitz said.

“There are two systems of Justice in the U.S.—our Justice system’s in deep trouble. We created a special system of justice for Trump. I document over and over how different standards apply to Trump ... there is no crime here.”