Actions have consequences
AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar face class action lawsuit for Columbia encampment support
Lefty “Squad” Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ilhan Omar have been slapped with a class-action lawsuit for “inciting and encouraging” the anti-Israel encampment and protests at Columbia University earlier this year.
The trio of radical Democrats were among the “outside champions” who also slammed law enforcement for breaking up the hateful demonstrations — which included masked protesters taking over a campus quad, chanting “Free Palestine!” and burning an Israeli flag and throwing rocks — resulting in the violent April 30 takeover of the school’s Hamilton Hall, according to court papers.
“If any kid is hurt tonight, responsibility will fall on the mayor and univ presidents,” AOC wrote on X April 30, adding, “a nightmare in the making.”
Five anonymous students filed the legal action against at least a dozen groups, including the virulent anti-Israel Within Our Lifetime, as well as AOC, Bowman, Omar — whose college-student daughter Isra Hirsi attends Barnard University and was arrested at the Columbia encampment.
What the students are saying is that the actions of those named in the suit made it difficult to go to class and created a hostile environment on campus
The encampment and their cheerleaders “not only consciously disregarded the rights of others, but the impact on the rights of others was the point of the protest: the more disruption [they] could cause for the University and the [students], the more leverage they thought they would have for their agenda,” according to the lawsuit.
Two of the five student plaintiffs are Jewish. All said they were too frightened by the violent protesters’ words and actions to reveal their names.
The Jewish students were bullied and threatened. And even pushed, which is assault.
The students said in court papers, “In a civilized community, one does not call for the obliteration of a major metropolitan area, praise terrorists, or threaten death and destruction upon our classmates and their families, friends, and coreligionists.”
Welcome to the world as created by Democrat voters
“Those were real damages sustained by the 36,000 students at Columbia who chose to obey university rules, go to class, and pursue their education, only to be frustrated at the finish line by the … acts of their classmates and professors, with the assistance and encouragement of outside activists,” the students argued.
All three lawmakers trespassed on the campus in April — showing up “and participated in the encampment” when access to campus was supposed to be limited to those with student IDs, according to the lawsuit.
Here’s a question: will the three claim Congressional immunity, saying they were in the midst of doing their job? Which would be interesting since they are trying to remove all immunity from the Supreme Court and the President.
Meanwhile, in England…the Left wants to close the country down for Muslims
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/08/uk-independent-adviser-on-political-violence-and-disruption-calls-for-covid-style-lockdowns-to-stop-islamophobia
Hey guys our country is bankrupt, the markets are crashing, you can’t buy groceries and you’ll never own a home but Kamala Harris is a woman and black.
A family history of owning blacks does not make one “black”. Not even by the most extreme “one drop” rule.
Unprovable case. It is nearly impossible to prove the three named individuals had anything to do with this event other than holding the same beliefs. In other words, there would still have been an anti-Israel riot even if AOC said nothing about it. The plaintiffs would be better off suing university staff and the activist groups that organized the events. They try to hide their paper trail to prevent such liability, but there are plenty of lawyers who can follow that trail.
True. It’s like proving that Trump incited the violence of Jan 6 2020.