NEW YORK (WLNE) — Providence City Council Chief of Staff June Rose was arrested, along with 96 others, following a protest at Trump Tower on Thursday. City Council President Rachel Miller confirmed Rose’s arrest in a statement. The NYPD confirmed to ABC6 News that 97 people were taken into cust ody. 90 were given summonses for disorderly conduct and released, the NYPD said, and seven were issued desk appearance tickets. “This is a perilous moment for our democracy and taking action is not something to be scorned,” Miller said in a statement. “June was using vacation time yesterday and chose to use their time to defend constitutional freedoms.” A spokesperson for the group that organized the protest, Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a Facebook post that demonstrators went to Trump Tower to protest the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil was a leader of the pro-Palestinian encampment movement at Columbia University. Khalil was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York on Saturday. According to a notice to appear obtained by ABC News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined Khalil being present in the United States “would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the U.S.” The document obtained by ABC News cites the Immigration and Nationality Act. ABC News reports Khalil is scheduled to appear before an immigration judge on March 27 in Louisiana. Khalil will have to show at the hearing why he should not be removed from the United States, according to the ABC News report. Khalil’s attorneys argued his arrest was a “targeted, retaliatory detention and attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech” in a petition filed on Thursday. President Donald Trump wrote on ‘Truth Social’ after the arrest: “This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.” Trump referred to previous executive orders he signed in supporting the arrest. Miller said Rose was released Thursday night and is back at work for the Providence City Council on Friday. Rose was previously arrested following a similar rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington in June. Categories: News, Providence, Rhode Island, US & World News ...read more read less