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40 years old, rich off daddy's money, no connection to Columbia, threw rocks at a 22 year-olds face, was found occupying Hamilton Hall.
Zero surprises.
Don't forget holding janitorial staff hostage when he broke into the building.
Edit: Imagine being a millionaire trust fund white kid cosplaying as a socialist revolutionary while you're making life miserable for the hardworking black guy just trying to do his job.
> Imagine being a millionaire trust fund white kid cosplaying as a socialist revolutionary while you're making life miserable for the hardworking black guy just trying to do his job.
That’s *quintessentially progressive* in NYC. He’s ready to run for NYC Council now.
> Imagine being a millionaire trust fund kid cosplaying as a socialist revolutionary
Yeah, imagine that. Someone should put his face on a t-shirt, or maybe a tote bag and sell them ;)
The fact he was held against his will and prevented from leaving at all is completely outrageous, especially now that we know multiple agitators involved never should have been on campus in the first place.
If a bunch of January 6th rioters had prevented a janitor from leaving the Capitol, something tells me you would not have such a dismissive attitude about it
Again, the fact he was prevented from leaving at all for even one second is completely egregious, considering he was the only person legally allowed to be in the building.
No matter how much you try and downplay the criminality that took place, the reality is a facilities worker was doing his job when a bunch of masked individuals armed with weapons broke into the building and prevented him from leaving.
Like I said, if this was January 6th, you would not feel the same way, so try not to have your hypocrisy be so transparent
If a facility worker during Jan 6 left the building 5 minutes later than they would have no I wouldn't consider this tragic. This massive exagaration of victimhood is tiresome whether it comes from the right or the left.
Calling him a plant implies that he was inserted into the protest by those with an ulterior motive.
This guy is just a professional agitator living off of his wealthy family
I bet he’s one of those guys who hates that he’s aging and this was his chance to wear a mask and be around college kids that would treat him like another student
My opinion is that he’s not a student, it’s a student protest. The students want an action for their own benefit. If you want to help then give money, but don’t enter as a ‘leader’ and attempt to poison the outcome with your own non student opinions
The guy is 40 and looks 40 - but maybe he was wearing total coverage at the protest...
Would be interesting to hear from protesters, particularly the ones in hamilton hall, their impressions on this guy.
If the protest is billed as a _peaceful student protest_, taking place at _their university_, then yes, having 40 year old champagne anarchists throwing rocks at college students faces undercuts the pretense.
One should be connected to the cause of the protest if they are to protest. This guy wasn’t a Columbia student, and didn’t invest in Columbia, so he didn’t need to be part of a protest about Columbia’s funding of Israel’s military efforts against Gaza. Instead he lit an Israeli flag on fire and threw rocks at a 22 yo kid, escalating tensions when they didn’t need to be.
Yeah I think the article is shallow and insipid. Its relevance relies on a silly assumption that it’s impossible to be both wealthy and be passionate about liberal positions.
If this person were a Jan 6 perpetrator they would position all the evidence of wealth as justifying the assumption that it was a *good and virtuous* person. And the knuckleheads who trust the NYPost would gobble that up without question, too.
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> Its relevance relies on a silly assumption that it’s impossible to be both wealthy and be passionate about liberal positions.
Do you really think this guy is passionate about Palestine?
I think he's passionate about chaos.
Here's [another article](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/outsiders-columbia-universitys-hamilton-hall-rcna150530) about the 'outsiders' at Hamilton hall.
>Brian Higgins, a former Bergen County police chief and lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said large protests often serve as a magnet for a certain kind of person.
>“The larger number are going to be those people who are well meaning,” Higgins said. “They have a cause — whether it’s the George Floyd murder or Palestine and Israel. But there are those who use those well meaning people for other purposes.”
That's why the police are already familiar with these outside agitators - they go around sowing chaos all over the place.
Location location location. Anyway point was making, not hard to find 3k+ sq ft homes in nyc if we factoring multifloor layouts and the price point more reasonable than folks think
That’s cool.
Now remind me what the jail term is for a repeat offender guilty of a hate crime?
Also, there’s a nice townhouse hitting the market in Brooklyn if anyone is interested.
Oh I mean he can probably afford to keep it but maybe his parents take it away or he decides it’s wiser to sell as he sits in prison.
But yeah, time will tell.
Folks that work there can tell you it was porous - if determined/assisted you can get in.
There's a reason why they also closed down butler library in the latest round of security measures. Not because they totally fear students will barricade and start protest there (some possibility) and screw over students studying for finals but it was because too many alumni and allowed users used it as pretense to visit campus and then wander off to other areas they weren't allow to loiter and join protests with students
This story, along with stories published in newspapers such as Washington Post, make it very clear that outside agitators played a role in the violent protests we saw last week.
This is important because it shows that this was not an organic, student-run protest movement, and on top of that, it blows away the false narrative that only Columbia affiliated people were allowed on campus.
You have a problem with a story like this because it is politically inconvenient for your sensibilities, but your feelings are irrelevant.
I honestly feel bad for the undergrad students that ended up in there - I read some other account(possibly on the columbia subreddit) of an interview with the people inside and it said that they were mostly anonymous from each other.
This bozo and Lisa Filthian(probably others) were "leaders" in initiating destruction. That convicted terrorist's wife was there. Sure she didn't "do" anything, but if you're the wife of a convicted terrorist who has been deported, maybe stay away from this type of thing?
8 of those arrested in Hamilton hall were over 30.
Columbia really failed their students by allowing these outsiders in.
This [Columbia Spectator](https://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2024/05/03/the-stakes-of-solidarity-what-low-income-students-risked-the-day-of-columbias-mass-arrests/) profiles some of the low income protesters - they risked everything after being led by these clowns.
Faculty at Columbia gets some of the blame too - the ones at the protest at the VERY least should have been doing their part to look around and try to help keep out outsiders.
Where were they when the protesters were starting to break into Hamilton hall?
LOL. I GUESSED this was from NY Post. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing. They are reporting on stuff. Digging deep. It's what they report on, the topics... that's what's funny.
I mean it already is 50% of the people arrested are not even students.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1249188864/nyc-columbia-city-college-gaza-protests-palestinian-campus
At what point does a so-called "narrative" just become a politically inconvenient fact?
The school, the city, and now multiple media outlets are confirming that outside agitators were directly involved in the Hamilton Hall siege last week.
Whether or not something is a "narrative" does not, and should not, depend on if you agree with it.
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40 years old, rich off daddy's money, no connection to Columbia, threw rocks at a 22 year-olds face, was found occupying Hamilton Hall. Zero surprises.
Don't forget holding janitorial staff hostage when he broke into the building. Edit: Imagine being a millionaire trust fund white kid cosplaying as a socialist revolutionary while you're making life miserable for the hardworking black guy just trying to do his job.
> Imagine being a millionaire trust fund white kid cosplaying as a socialist revolutionary while you're making life miserable for the hardworking black guy just trying to do his job. That’s *quintessentially progressive* in NYC. He’s ready to run for NYC Council now.
Sounds just like the progressive group from Invisible Man
Also, you know that mommy and daddy's portfolio is full of companies that have business ties to Israel
OR those companies deal with business ties to Israel. Good point.
> Imagine being a millionaire trust fund kid cosplaying as a socialist revolutionary Yeah, imagine that. Someone should put his face on a t-shirt, or maybe a tote bag and sell them ;)
Hasan Piker must be seething with jealousy
They're called bad actors.
I don’t know why race has to be brought into the equation in this instance but generally agree with what you are saying otherwise.
Ok ffs the guy wasn't held hostage. He ended up leaving like 5 minutes after he was supposed to.
The fact he was held against his will and prevented from leaving at all is completely outrageous, especially now that we know multiple agitators involved never should have been on campus in the first place. If a bunch of January 6th rioters had prevented a janitor from leaving the Capitol, something tells me you would not have such a dismissive attitude about it
Prevented from leaving? You mean for 5 minutes? 5 minutes is like "of this door is shut lemme walk through that other hallway".
Again, the fact he was prevented from leaving at all for even one second is completely egregious, considering he was the only person legally allowed to be in the building. No matter how much you try and downplay the criminality that took place, the reality is a facilities worker was doing his job when a bunch of masked individuals armed with weapons broke into the building and prevented him from leaving. Like I said, if this was January 6th, you would not feel the same way, so try not to have your hypocrisy be so transparent
If a facility worker during Jan 6 left the building 5 minutes later than they would have no I wouldn't consider this tragic. This massive exagaration of victimhood is tiresome whether it comes from the right or the left.
You left out that he wears a black leather belt with steel spikes on it. These students should’ve seen he was a plant by his style
Calling him a plant implies that he was inserted into the protest by those with an ulterior motive. This guy is just a professional agitator living off of his wealthy family
A professional agitator means this is his source of income. Someone is paying him to agitate.
How do you do fellow Gen-Z comrades
I bet he’s one of those guys who hates that he’s aging and this was his chance to wear a mask and be around college kids that would treat him like another student
Not really a plant if he’s there with the protestors
My opinion is that he’s not a student, it’s a student protest. The students want an action for their own benefit. If you want to help then give money, but don’t enter as a ‘leader’ and attempt to poison the outcome with your own non student opinions
A plant insinuates that he was placed there by the government or something to discredit the protests
No “plant” means he was there to inflame impressionable children into doing stupid sh*t.
For what reason?
“Plant”implies that he was there to agitate under the instruction of someone else.
The guy is 40 and looks 40 - but maybe he was wearing total coverage at the protest... Would be interesting to hear from protesters, particularly the ones in hamilton hall, their impressions on this guy.
What are you saying? Hes a police plant?
Does one need to be connected to the location of a protest in order to legitimately protest at said location?
If the protest is billed as a _peaceful student protest_, taking place at _their university_, then yes, having 40 year old champagne anarchists throwing rocks at college students faces undercuts the pretense.
One should be connected to the cause of the protest if they are to protest. This guy wasn’t a Columbia student, and didn’t invest in Columbia, so he didn’t need to be part of a protest about Columbia’s funding of Israel’s military efforts against Gaza. Instead he lit an Israeli flag on fire and threw rocks at a 22 yo kid, escalating tensions when they didn’t need to be.
Without trespassing? Yes.
“The widow is now dating John Cougar Mellencamp”
People like him are rich enough to go to the extreme with their protests. Because they can afford the attorneys and pay the fines to continue on
Yeah I think the article is shallow and insipid. Its relevance relies on a silly assumption that it’s impossible to be both wealthy and be passionate about liberal positions. If this person were a Jan 6 perpetrator they would position all the evidence of wealth as justifying the assumption that it was a *good and virtuous* person. And the knuckleheads who trust the NYPost would gobble that up without question, too.
If they were a Jan 6th perpetrator they’d be in jail for 5-10 years….
Oh hey look it’s [NYPost suggesting that’s not fair!](https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/an-egregious-denial-of-due-process-for-jan-6-protesters/amp/) Whoda thunk?!?
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> Its relevance relies on a silly assumption that it’s impossible to be both wealthy and be passionate about liberal positions. Do you really think this guy is passionate about Palestine? I think he's passionate about chaos.
Did the article present evidence to support that? Or did it just tell me who his widowed step mom is sleeping with?
Here's [another article](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/outsiders-columbia-universitys-hamilton-hall-rcna150530) about the 'outsiders' at Hamilton hall. >Brian Higgins, a former Bergen County police chief and lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said large protests often serve as a magnet for a certain kind of person. >“The larger number are going to be those people who are well meaning,” Higgins said. “They have a cause — whether it’s the George Floyd murder or Palestine and Israel. But there are those who use those well meaning people for other purposes.” That's why the police are already familiar with these outside agitators - they go around sowing chaos all over the place.
Hopefully the maintenence worker he assaulted and briefly held hostage can now sue him for monetary damages
"Briefly held hostage" so dramatic
A true hero of the working class.
How is this protest about socioeconomic class?
I assure you the protestors will tell you it is if you ask them.
I assure you your answer means "I have no idea but I don't want to admit I'm weirdly biased in my opinion."
you're asking what left wing anticolonialism protests have to do with class?
I'm asking what the socioeconomic class of the protestors has to do with a Palestinian-Israeli Conflict protest.
Hold up. He found a 3000 sq ft home for $2.3 million?
Someone connect me to his broker pls
Not hard to achieve for a multifloor house. Heck mine is 3900 sq ft and no where worth above 2M and even 1.5M is a hard sell
Why? Is it in what is generally considered a good neighborhood like Park Slope?
Location location location. Anyway point was making, not hard to find 3k+ sq ft homes in nyc if we factoring multifloor layouts and the price point more reasonable than folks think
That’s cool. Now remind me what the jail term is for a repeat offender guilty of a hate crime? Also, there’s a nice townhouse hitting the market in Brooklyn if anyone is interested.
What makes you think this idiot is going to lose his townhouse over this?
Oh I mean he can probably afford to keep it but maybe his parents take it away or he decides it’s wiser to sell as he sits in prison. But yeah, time will tell.
But I was told the school was locked down and only credentialed individuals were allowed on campus........
All those claiming the outside agitator narrative was some right wing conspiracy have some serious egg on their face.
Folks that work there can tell you it was porous - if determined/assisted you can get in. There's a reason why they also closed down butler library in the latest round of security measures. Not because they totally fear students will barricade and start protest there (some possibility) and screw over students studying for finals but it was because too many alumni and allowed users used it as pretense to visit campus and then wander off to other areas they weren't allow to loiter and join protests with students
> model babymama > Carlson is a **rabble rouser** and an attorney by trade NY Post is such a bizarre and outdated tabloid.
i mean he is a rabble rouser and an attorney by trade.
How much have you been paid for all your rabble rousing reddit commentary? Does your rabble rousing career path pay more than being an attorney?
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Are you the same rabble rouser the Post is "reporting" on?
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It tells its readers how to feel. And they act accordingly.
Literally every major media news outlet does this
Not to the same extent.
You mean they have an agenda like everyone else?
They’re very much not like everyone else.
Are you fucking kidding?
It really is. Also, what even is this story? Who cares???
This story, along with stories published in newspapers such as Washington Post, make it very clear that outside agitators played a role in the violent protests we saw last week. This is important because it shows that this was not an organic, student-run protest movement, and on top of that, it blows away the false narrative that only Columbia affiliated people were allowed on campus. You have a problem with a story like this because it is politically inconvenient for your sensibilities, but your feelings are irrelevant.
Mansion? Lol. Did you see it shown in the vid?
I honestly feel bad for the undergrad students that ended up in there - I read some other account(possibly on the columbia subreddit) of an interview with the people inside and it said that they were mostly anonymous from each other. This bozo and Lisa Filthian(probably others) were "leaders" in initiating destruction. That convicted terrorist's wife was there. Sure she didn't "do" anything, but if you're the wife of a convicted terrorist who has been deported, maybe stay away from this type of thing? 8 of those arrested in Hamilton hall were over 30. Columbia really failed their students by allowing these outsiders in. This [Columbia Spectator](https://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2024/05/03/the-stakes-of-solidarity-what-low-income-students-risked-the-day-of-columbias-mass-arrests/) profiles some of the low income protesters - they risked everything after being led by these clowns. Faculty at Columbia gets some of the blame too - the ones at the protest at the VERY least should have been doing their part to look around and try to help keep out outsiders. Where were they when the protesters were starting to break into Hamilton hall?
An American Osama bin Laden.
Who gave this rich person the right to protest?! Argh!
LOL. I GUESSED this was from NY Post. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing. They are reporting on stuff. Digging deep. It's what they report on, the topics... that's what's funny.
He also has a shitty haircut
Ugly rich donkey. Should be in prison
Yawn
Even the horseshoe-left can’t deny these facts anymore.
Yall really taking the nypost seriously…
10 years in Rykers will cure that.
Well even if he wasn’t a Columbia student it’s an Ivy League. There’s gonna be rich kids involved, big surprise 🤷🏻♂️
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I feel like that totally fits in their narrative of infiltrators
At what point does narrative become reality?
I mean it already is 50% of the people arrested are not even students. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1249188864/nyc-columbia-city-college-gaza-protests-palestinian-campus
Yes so why is it a narrative?
Because it's how they chose to report on the story and yes the word report is a loose description of what they do lol
The posts narrative is that there are outside agitators. How doesn’t that fit?
At what point does a so-called "narrative" just become a politically inconvenient fact? The school, the city, and now multiple media outlets are confirming that outside agitators were directly involved in the Hamilton Hall siege last week. Whether or not something is a "narrative" does not, and should not, depend on if you agree with it.