It was his second big fall.
An environmental warrior who crashed into the sidewalk as he climbed a Chase bench during what some called an “anti-capitalist” protest: he himself is a small business owner in Manhattan who suffered a pandemic outbreak, said his sister to The Post.
Kevin Clarke, 32, is now calling for pain medication and handcuffed to bed at Bellevue Hospital, with his pelvis shattered by the 30-foot sinking the video saw, Sister Nicole Clarke said by phone from Los Angeles.
The “Clarke’s pelvic area has been shattered in several places” and his right elbow is also broken, his sister said. “You won’t be able to move for a few months.” Officials did not immediately confirm the extent of his injuries.
The video of the scene shows another protester undoing the building with spray paint during Clarke’s doomed climb. A stream of black paint came out of the backpack of the fallen climber while he was dying on the sidewalk, the video shows.
Online observers called the Ertzatz Spider-Man an “anti-capitalist protester,” but his sister insisted the next day that he had joined the Extinction Rebellion protest group because he wanted to fight climate change.
“It was not an anti-capitalist protest,” he said of the group’s participation in the demonstration within capitalism, on Madison Avenue, between 47th and 46th Streets in the East.
It was Chase’s goal because “it’s the largest investor in fossil fuel investments in the world,” he said.
Clarke grew up in Oregon, went to high school in Wichita, Kansas, and has lived in New York for the past decade, he said.
Her sister refused to describe her business, saying only that she had no employees. He would not answer if his brother was a pro-capitalist.
“What I can tell you is that he was a small business entrepreneur in Manhattan whose business was devastated by the COVID crisis,” he said.
Clarke has been charged with dangerous danger by the call, police said.
According to police, he has been charged with dangerous danger by the call, which would not confirm if Clarke was chained to the bed.
“Except in very limited circumstances, a hospitalized inmate will be handcuffed,” an NYPD spokeswoman said.