For a second time in two days, New York police have intervened to disperse crowds at a Jewish funeral.
Video footage shows officers ordering mourners to get off the street as they followed the hearse containing the body of a 95-year old Holocaust survivor in Brooklyn on Thursday.
A 17-year-old youth was detained and issued with a summons for disorderly conduct.
The incident came as controversy continued to simmer over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s condemnation of a large funeral procession for a Satmar Chasidic rabbi in Wiliamsburg, which was broken by police on Tuesday.
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