The Manhattan district attorney filed arson and criminal mischief charges against a Brooklyn lawyer who was arrested in a university administration building.
Carlson is accused of snatching the Israeli flag of a Jewish man from another demonstrator at an April 20 protest — and began burning it with a lighter before a witness pulled it away, court records show.
Carlson additionally participated in an April 30 incident where he unlawfully entered the Ivy League school’s Hamilton Hall and was charged with criminal trespassing, court records show.
While he was being processed by NYPD at 1 Police Plaza, Carlson allegedly kicked and broke a glass panel in a holding cell, the indictment said.
He pleaded not guilty to charges in the incident, according to court records.
