A City University professor who hates Israel helped organize a vile protest on campus that resulted in $3 million in damages, two City Council members claim.
City Council members Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) and Kalman Jaeger (D-Brooklyn) are calling for an investigation and possibly the professor's removal.
They claim to have “credible information” that Corinna Marin, an adjunct professor of political science, was one of the ringleaders of the April camp at the City University of New York's Harlem campus.
NYPD and campus police arrested approximately 170 anti-Israel demonstrators at CCNY on April 30, including Marin. According to Go to report.
The demonstrations led to a science museum fire and other incidents of violence.
Mr. Vernikov and Mr. Jaeger, both Jewish, sent a scathing letter about Marin to New York City Mayor Felix Matos Rodriguez on Friday.
Police say, “We demand an immediate investigation, and if the allegations are substantiated, we will demand appropriate punishment.'' “The students and faculty whose actions caused the chaos and violence at our taxpayer-funded university must be held accountable for the more than $3 million in damages that resulted.”
Mullin, who teaches at Manhattan's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Brooklyn College, received a total of $37,500 in taxpayer-funded salaries last year, according to SeeThroughNY.
The radical academic has previously been associated with the John Jay chapter of the Israeli hate group Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as the pro-terrorist organization “In Our Lifetime,” Polish police wrote.
During the demonstration, protesters fired smoke bombs, causing a fire on the roof of the science building. Conflict with public safety personnel. They then entered the administration building, broke the glass door, and destroyed the office. According to school officials.
Protesters also threw rocks and pepper spray at campus police during the mayhem, injuring two City College police officers, a campus police officer told the Post.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Marin received a summons after his arrest, but did not specify the charges.
At a press conference in May, Marin whined to reporters about the “inhuman treatment” she and others suffered after her arrest.
The lawmakers' letter to Matos Rodriguez comes on the heels of a public hearing last month in the City Council's Higher Education Committee. The hearing was held in the wake of a damning independent report that found City University needed an overhaul of its policies to combat anti-Semitism on 25 university campuses.
During the hearing, Matos Rodríguez repeatedly sidestepped questions from Vernikov, Jaeger and other polls about whether City University students and faculty were disciplined for their involvement in the demonstrations.
However, a campus police officer said he personally knows six City University faculty and staff and 15 students who were collared by campus officers during protests in April, but none of them received disciplinary action. Not a single person received it.
“While many policies were violated, the City University of New York has not held anyone accountable for their actions,” the officer said.
Mullin's attorney, Nancy Smith, said the city council members' letter contained “false and defamatory statements” about the educator and said Mullin was arrested during a “peaceful protest.” did.
She insisted that Marin did not break any laws during the CCNY protests, noting that trespassing charges against the academic had been dropped, and that protesters in the CUNY community were “nonviolent.” , claimed that their demonstrations did not cause any harm.
Marin added: “We are not intimidated by the current McCarthyism.”
CUNY did not respond to a request for comment.
