Two Columbia University students told Fox News they wanted to make a quiet statement by standing up against the illegal act that was attempted to quell the invasion of Hamilton Hall on campus by anti-Israel forces.
Charles Beck and Rory Wilson spoke to “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday after Beck was filmed being attacked by masked protesters. Wilson, along with her classmates, made a “snapshot” decision born out of disdain for the chaos.
Video of the clash showed two students standing on the steps of Hamilton Hall, which was besieged and eventually occupied by demonstrators, who at one point ordered pizza into the upper floors of the building. I lifted it up to the floor.
A female demonstrator could be heard chanting in the background as she called on her fellow protesters to form a “circle” and “let us go.”
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“I ran over and there was chaos. People were breaking windows,” Wilson said.
“I… am against what is happening, that this is totally inappropriate and destructive to the property of our university, and that this is the attitude we should take in any kind of discourse.” I wanted to show that this is not the case at all.”
Beck added that he followed a friend’s advice to back off a bit as protesters advanced toward him.
“Essentially, he was so scared for my health and safety. You know, he had kind of a top-field vision about it, and he said if I stayed there, “I was afraid of what the crowd would cause,” he said, adding that his friend had urged him “not to become a martyr for the building.” Ta.
Beck said she wasn’t thinking about her own safety at the time, but instead needed students to stand up to mob rules on campus.
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“Ideally, someone at our university would be able to say, well, they disagree with what’s going on and understand that something is fundamentally wrong,” he said. Said.
Host Laura Ingraham Both students encounter “professional protester” Lisa Fitian on campus and say they have more right to counter-protest than the agitators who are occupying Hamilton Hall and trying to hold on. It was reported that a video of the two telling her was shown. The university is hostage. ”
Mr. Beck said Mr. Fijian, who was described by Mother Jones during the Occupy Wall Street movement as a 50-year-old “street radical who teaches kids who want to be bad guys to be smart,” said he was He claimed he was on campus to do something. Indeed, no one was hurt, and “people who shouldn’t have gotten in the way didn’t.”
Wilson said that in addition to Fitian, a number of “shady people” were also seen off campus. They also reportedly saw footage of someone dressed in black robbing the John Jay mansion, which coincidentally bears the name of the first Chief Justice of the United States.
“There was a car full of masked people who appeared to be watching us,” Wilson added.
