UNION SQUARE- YouTuber Kai Cenat is now facing several criminal charges after chaos broke out at Union Square when he showed up for a “giveaway” Friday night, police said.
The popular Twitch streamer announced on his social media that a few of his fans could win PlayStation 5 consoles at 4 p.m. in Union Square before thousands of people flocked to the streets.
“At approximately 3 p.m., the post went viral and thousands of people began to arrive at Union Square. Soon the park and the surrounding streets were overrun with people. They were obstructing vehicular and pedestrian traffic,” New York Police Chief Jefferey Maddrey said during a press conference Friday.
Maddrey added “After numerous warnings and being assailed and hit with rocks, bottles and other debris, we started to make arrests to clear out the park.”
Cenat now faces multiple criminal charges, including unlawful assembly and inciting a riot, the NYPD said at a second press conference.
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