Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik told Newsmax on Friday that the U.S. Secret Service should identify and investigate “every person that was arrested” during the protest at Trump Tower on Thursday evening.

Almost 100 Jewish protestors were arrested following a sit-in at Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday, which was organized and live-streamed by the group Jewish Voice for Peace. The protestors called for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University and who was detained by immigration authorities over the weekend.

Kerik said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that he was “glad” that NYPD Chief of Department John Chell “got there quickly, the arrests began happening. But … the organization of these groups is concerning.”

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