This was his second big fall.
An eco-fighter who crashed on the sidewalk while climbing on a Chase bench during what some called an “anti-capitalist” protest is himself a small business owner in Manhattan who suffered a devastating pandemic. said his sister to The Post.
Kevin Clarke, 32, screamed for pain medication and was handcuffed to his hospital bed in Bellevue, his pelvis shattered from the 30-foot video recording, Sister Nicole Clarke said by phone from Los Angeles.
Clarke’s ‘pelvic area was crushed in several places’ and his right elbow was also broken, his sister said. “He will not be able to move for a few months.” Officials did not immediately confirm the extent of his injuries.
Video of the scene shows another protester damaging the building with spray paint during Clarke’s doomed climb. Streams of black paint flowed from the backpack of the fallen climber as he lay in pain on the sidewalk, the video shows.
Online observers described the replacement Spider-Man as an “anti-capitalist protester”, but his sister insisted the next day that he had joined a protest group Extinction Rebellion because he wanted to fight climate change.
“It was not an anti-capitalist protest,” she claims of the group’s participation in the demonstration in the bosom of capitalism in Madison Avenue, between 47th and 46th streets.
Chase has been targeted because it is ‘the largest financier of fossil fuel investments in the world’, she said.
Clarke grew up in Oregon, went to high school in Wichita, Kansas, and lived in New York for the past decade, she said.
His sister did not want to describe his business and just said he has no employees. She would not answer if her brother was pro-capitalist.
“What I can tell you is that he was a small business owner in Manhattan and whose business was ruined by the COVID crisis,” she said.
Clarke is charged with reckless threat for the stunt, police said.
According to police, he was charged with reckless threat for the stunt, which did not want to confirm whether Clarke was chained to a bed.
“Except in very limited circumstances, a prisoner will be handcuffed to the hospital,” an NYPD spokesman said.