Moment Guardian Angels vigilantes take down ‘Venezuelan migrant shoplifter’ in Times Square during LIVE interview with Sean Hannity

A group of vigilantes tackled a man they claimed was a Venezuelan migrant shoplifter during a live interview in Times Square.

Failed New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa was speaking with his “Guardian Angels” with Sean Hannity on Fox News when his men suddenly ran away.

“Our guys just took down one of the migrant guys here on the corner of 42nd and 7th while all this was going on,” Sliwa said on screen alone at 9:30 p.m.

Hannity asked to point the camera at the action, and he panned to see the Guardian Angels push a man to the ground and then tackle him.

Why the ‘anti-crime group’ thought the man was a shoplifter and whether he was actually a migrant was never explained during the interview. Sliwa claimed later in the show that the man had been seen shoplifting, and they roughly threw him to the ground when he “resisted.”

“The Guardian Angels saw him, stopped him, he resisted and let’s say we gave him a little pain relief,” he said.

‘His mother in Venezuela felt the tremors. He’s sucking concrete, the cops scraped him off the asphalt, he’s on his way to jail, but they’re going to cut him loose.”

“We need to take back 42nd Street. These illegals think they own this street, they think they are in charge of the night. This is our country. If they can’t follow the rules, we’ll kick them back from where they came.”

Sliwa complained that the NYPD takes a “hands-off” approach to crime, and that despite not being law enforcement officers, they want to make migrants “pay.”

“You shoplift, you commit a crime, you assault people, you don’t belong in our country and we will make sure you pay a price for that,” he said.

“We have to fight for what we know is right, and you saw a little piece of this. They got a taste of what the Guardian Angels will do to rid Times Square of them.”

The NYPD said there were three dozen arrests around Times Square on Tuesday evening, but was unsure if anyone was in custody for the incident caught on camera.

Hannity asked to point the camera at the action, and he panned to see the Guardian Angels push a man to the ground and then tackle him

Sliwa recently found himself on the wrong side of the law, being arrested last August during an anti-immigration rally outside Mayor Eric Adams’ office.

His group was involved in a brawl between protesters and counter-protesters and crossed police barriers after being warned not to do so.

A week earlier, he was arrested during another anti-immigration protest outside a new asylum center.

Sliwa admitted in 1992 that he had faked at least six crimes that his group had supposedly foiled, including a robbery, to gain publicity.

Police officers were attacked as they tried to disperse a disorderly group in front of 220 West 42 Street on January 27 around 8:30 p.m.

JHoan Boada is released from Manhattan Criminal Court after being charged with beating two cops in Times Square with a group of others

The New York monument has been the scene of other ugly scenes in recent months, sometimes involving confirmed migrants.

Police officers were attacked as they tried to disperse a disorderly group in front of 220 West 42 Street on January 27 around 8:30 p.m.

According to the NYPD, the migrants then began attacking them, kicking their heads and bodies as the two officers attempted to pin one of the men down and remove his sweatshirt.

The migrants then ran away, leaving the police officers on the ground as they fled east on 42nd Street toward Seventh Avenue.

Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel, 19, Kelvin Servita Arocha, 19, Wilson Juarez, 21, Yorman Reveron, 24, Jhoan Boada, 22, and Yohenry Brito, 24, were all later arrested.

They were charged with assault on a police officer, gang assault, obstruction of government administration and disorderly conduct, but were released without bail.

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The same group has also been linked to a migrant crime in which more than 60 women were targeted and their phones stolen. During one of the thefts, a woman was dragged by a moped while suspects took her phone.

Seven migrants were arrested by the NYPD after allegedly committing a crime in which they stole wallets and phones from at least 62 women across the five boroughs.

Police arrested at least seven migrants, all believed to be from Venezuela, at a safe house in the Bronx after executing a search warrant.

Police believe the gang is led by Venezuelan leader Victor Parra, 30. He had a tech hack into the phones, use the devices to make fraudulent purchases and empty the victim’s bank accounts before sending them to Colombia.

“As you saw in yesterday’s heist — where the proceeds are shipped to Miami, Houston and ultimately Colombia — they’re a little more sophisticated because they’re hacking into people’s phones and stealing people’s banking information,” NYPD said. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

Kenny added that the gangs were able to gain access to people’s Venmo, Zelle and other money transfer accounts before making purchases, transferring money to other accounts or withdrawing money.

Once the accounts are cleared, they ship the phones overseas and sell them, Kenny said.