On 8 August 2024, New York City Police officers arrested John Mark Rozendaal, Alec Connon, and 13 other activists who had linked arms in a circle around Rozendaal to protect him as he played Bach’s suites for cello minutes after he began performing in front of Citibank's headquarters. Rozendaal and Connon were held in jail overnight and released Friday morning, charged with criminal contempt for violating an order of protection. They will go to court in September on assault charges from July and the new criminal contempt charges.

The creative action comes nine weeks into the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, a sustained civil disobedience campaign by climate activists targeting Citibank’s financing of companies funding and expanding fossil fuel projects. More than 5,000 people have participated in the Summer of Heat protests between June - September 2024.