Serial protesters disrupt Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s with ‘Free Palestine’ chants before cops haul them away
Nothing’s sacred to these guys.
A trio of attention-seeking protesters — one of whom previously glued his feet to the stands at the US Open as part of a climate-change stunt — were cuffed and hauled out of St. Patrick’s Cathedral after disrupting Easter Mass with shouts of “Free Palestine” on Saturday night, cops say.
Police were called to the iconic Midtown cathedral for complaints about a “disorderly group” just before 9 p.m. The protesters were quickly taken out of the service.
Matthew Menzies, 31, John Rozendaal, 63, and Gregory Schwedock, 35, were taken into custody and charged with disruption of religious service, police told The Post.
While being escorted out, one yelled “Free Palestine,” a video shared to X shows.
Schwedock, of the Upper East Side, was arrested in September after disrupting the US Open women’s semifinal with activists who used glue to prevent security from ejecting them from Arthur Ashe Stadium after they held up a sign decrying fossil fuels. Their stunt stalled the match for nearly 50 minutes.
The globe-trotting Stuyvesant High School grad has made a career of divisive climate protests, and has documented many of his activities on social media.
Rozendaal, an Inwood resident, was previously arrested in April after spray-painting “Climate criminal and no new oil” on a window at a Citibank.
The three noisemakers barged into the church following a protest by thousands of pro-Palestinian marchers in Times Square.
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