Cops Search For More Subway Protesters, This Time In The Village

WEST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN — Cops are looking for four women who chained open emergency exit doors in the Village during the day of mass subway protest late last month.

The four women, caught on surveillance video, used chains and locks to hold open emergency exit doors in the West Fourth Street station around 6:22 p.m. on Jan. 31, a day of mass civil disobedience in the city's subway system planned by Decolonize This Place. They are being sought for criminal tampering charges, police said.

Police said two of the women had brown hair, one had blonde hair and the fourth had black hair and wears glasses.

They did not specify whether the stickers aligned with the protest, but the actions by the suspects are in line with those taken by protesters throughout the city.

Throughout the rest of the day, protesters unveiled a large, black banner that read "F-- your $2.75" at the World Trade Center station, gave out free swipes at a Bronx subway station, painted over an OMNY machine and chained emergency exit doors open, media posted to Twitter shows.

The rally came a week after the first of 500 new subway cops were sworn in, despite rising protests from straphangers and elected officials outraged over violent subway arrests, many of which shows cops targeting people of color.

Those concerns reached the Attorney General's office, which has launched an investigation into allegations of racial prejudice in subway fare evasion policing.

Anyone with information in regards to where about this individual, is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.