Tensions over the Chinese government crackdown in Tibet reached Manhattan's West Side Saturday when protesters outside the Chinese Consulate building threw debris and scuffled with police, resulting in minor injuries and several arrests.
The demonstration at 12th Avenue and 42nd Street was organized by five Tibetan activists groups and began about 9 a.m. with about 300 people chanting and waving flags, witnesses and an event organizer said.
Between 11:30 a.m. and noon, about six Tibetan protesters began hurling pieces of a wooden barricade, bricks and glass bottles at the building, breaking several windows and smashing glass against the building's façade.
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