US actor Hunter Schafer was among dozens of war protesters arrested at NBC's headquarters in Manhattan during President Joe Biden's appearance on Late Night with Seth Myers this week, organisers confirmed.
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The 25-year-old Euphoria star was part of a group of more than 100 demonstrators who packed the lobby at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Monday afternoon to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, said the group Jewish Voice for Peace.
Schafer and other protesters wore black shirts reading, "Ceasefire Now" and "Not in Our Name" while chanting "Let Gaza Live" and other slogans as Biden's motorcade pulled into the area, according to videos and photos of the event.
Schafer, who like many protesters also wore a face mask, is seen at one point seated on the floor as others hold up a banner behind her reading, "Jews to Biden: Stop Arming Genocide."
Representatives for Schafer didn't respond to messages seeking comment. Protest organisers said she and others are due in court sometime next month.
"We commend her commitment to Palestinian freedom and to a future of justice for everyone," Sonya Meyerson-Knox, of Jewish Voice for Peace, said in an emailed statement.
The New York Police Department on Wednesday said 30 people were taken into custody and issued summonses for trespassing following the hour-and-a-half-long demonstration.
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