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Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

Arctish said:
Derec said:
Arctish said:
Columbia Students Allegedly Sprayed With Putrid Chemical at Pro-Palestine Rally
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In other words, unsubstantiated allegations from members of Palestinian groups written about in a student newspaper.
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The NYPD investigated the reported chemical attack and the student responsible was suspended, which he thinks is unfair because he says it was a novelty gag spray, and never mind that it's still assault to spray that shit at people and appears to have been done to disrupt a peaceful political protest.

I'm sure Columbia's Code of Conduct forbids students from spraying chemical irritants at each other.
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It turns out it was "fart spray" and the claims that it was skunk were just lies by the Israel haters.

Columbia pays $395,000 to student suspended over protest ‘fart spray’
Teh Grauniad said:
Columbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campus demonstrations in support of Palestine.
The Israeli student who received the payout had been suspended until May.
The case was first described as a possible chemical attack involving the use of skunk spray, an agent developed in Israel and used as a crowd-control weapon, most commonly in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But Columbia has said the spray used was novelty, non-toxic fart spray, bought on Amazon for $26.11, and not a chemical agent.
A lawsuit that the student filed against Columbia in April had first asserted that he had deployed the fart spray in question on the demonstrators “as a harmless expression of his speech” relying on a product that is marketed as Liquid Ass – and is readily available for consumer purchase.
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Liquid Ass: Prank Fart Spray, Gag Gift for Adults and Kids, Great for Pranks and A Good Laugh, Extra Strong Poop Spray, Non Toxic, Keep Out of Reach from Children
 
Pittsburgh ‘Hamas operative’ allegedly bought explosives, vandalized Jewish buildings — and donated to Squad Democrats
NY Post said:
The FBI and Pittsburgh police arrested two Pittsburgh-area residents Wednesday on hate-crime charges for allegedly damaging or defacing Jewish buildings in July.
Shockingly one of those individuals, Mohamad Hamad, self-identified as a “Hamas operative,” purchased and tested explosive materials for a future fireball and was a Pennsylvania Air National Guard member stationed near Pittsburgh International Airport, according to the criminal complaint.
The US and Lebanese dual citizen also donated to Squad Democrats who have called Israel’s year-long-war in Gaza a genocide and pushed for a US arms embargo on the Jewish state as it fights Iran and its terrorist proxies.
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Derec said:
Arctish said:
Derec said:
Arctish said:
Columbia Students Allegedly Sprayed With Putrid Chemical at Pro-Palestine Rally
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In other words, unsubstantiated allegations from members of Palestinian groups written about in a student newspaper.
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The NYPD investigated the reported chemical attack and the student responsible was suspended, which he thinks is unfair because he says it was a novelty gag spray, and never mind that it's still assault to spray that shit at people and appears to have been done to disrupt a peaceful political protest.

I'm sure Columbia's Code of Conduct forbids students from spraying chemical irritants at each other.
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It turns out it was "fart spray" and the claims that it was skunk were just lies by the Israel haters.

Columbia pays $395,000 to student suspended over protest ‘fart spray’
Teh Grauniad said:
Columbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campus demonstrations in support of Palestine.
The Israeli student who received the payout had been suspended until May.
The case was first described as a possible chemical attack involving the use of skunk spray, an agent developed in Israel and used as a crowd-control weapon, most commonly in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But Columbia has said the spray used was novelty, non-toxic fart spray, bought on Amazon for $26.11, and not a chemical agent.
A lawsuit that the student filed against Columbia in April had first asserted that he had deployed the fart spray in question on the demonstrators “as a harmless expression of his speech” relying on a product that is marketed as Liquid Ass – and is readily available for consumer purchase.
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Liquid Ass: Prank Fart Spray, Gag Gift for Adults and Kids, Great for Pranks and A Good Laugh, Extra Strong Poop Spray, Non Toxic, Keep Out of Reach from Children
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So he did spray a chemical irritant, an act which is currently being investigated by the NYPD as a possible hate crime, to disrupt a gathering of fellow students, some of whom experienced symptoms severe enough they sought treatment at a local hospital and at least one of whom was put on an IV and given medication to treat the effects of “chemical exposure”, and you're pinning your defense on the stuff being an over-the-counter chemical spray, not a restricted one?

I haven't read Columbia's Code of Conduct rules but I doubt it permits assault and battery. So I'm wondering if the payout is because Columbia didn't follow its own rules regarding how COC violations are handled, or if it's just an attempt to bury the controversy and make the investigations go away.
 
Arctish said:
Derec said:
Arctish said:
Derec said:
Arctish said:
Columbia Students Allegedly Sprayed With Putrid Chemical at Pro-Palestine Rally
Click to expand...
In other words, unsubstantiated allegations from members of Palestinian groups written about in a student newspaper.
Click to expand...
The NYPD investigated the reported chemical attack and the student responsible was suspended, which he thinks is unfair because he says it was a novelty gag spray, and never mind that it's still assault to spray that shit at people and appears to have been done to disrupt a peaceful political protest.

I'm sure Columbia's Code of Conduct forbids students from spraying chemical irritants at each other.
Click to expand...

It turns out it was "fart spray" and the claims that it was skunk were just lies by the Israel haters.

Columbia pays $395,000 to student suspended over protest ‘fart spray’
Teh Grauniad said:
Columbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campus demonstrations in support of Palestine.
The Israeli student who received the payout had been suspended until May.
The case was first described as a possible chemical attack involving the use of skunk spray, an agent developed in Israel and used as a crowd-control weapon, most commonly in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But Columbia has said the spray used was novelty, non-toxic fart spray, bought on Amazon for $26.11, and not a chemical agent.
A lawsuit that the student filed against Columbia in April had first asserted that he had deployed the fart spray in question on the demonstrators “as a harmless expression of his speech” relying on a product that is marketed as Liquid Ass – and is readily available for consumer purchase.
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Liquid Ass: Prank Fart Spray, Gag Gift for Adults and Kids, Great for Pranks and A Good Laugh, Extra Strong Poop Spray, Non Toxic, Keep Out of Reach from Children
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So he did spray a chemical irritant, an act which is currently being investigated by the NYPD as a possible hate crime, to disrupt a gathering of fellow students, some of whom experienced symptoms severe enough they sought treatment at a local hospital and at least one of whom was put on an IV and given medication to treat the effects of “chemical exposure”, and you're pinning your defense on the stuff being an over-the-counter chemical spray, not a restricted one?

I haven't read Columbia's Code of Conduct rules but I doubt it permits assault and battery. So I'm wondering if the payout is because Columbia didn't follow its own rules regarding how COC violations are handled, or if it's just an attempt to bury the controversy and make the investigations go away.
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I would think the lawsuits he should be charged with should put a huge dent in that payout.
 
Arctish said:
So he did spray a chemical irritant,
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It's not an irritant. It's a non-toxic novelty spray. It just stinks.
It's admittedly a chemical, but so is everything.
an act which is currently being investigated by the NYPD as a possible hate crime, to disrupt a gathering of fellow students, some of whom experienced symptoms severe enough they sought treatment at a local hospital and at least one of whom was put on an IV and given medication to treat the effects of “chemical exposure”, and you're pinning your defense on the stuff being an over-the-counter chemical spray, not a restricted one?
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I.e. they made a false claim to NYPD and malingered.
I haven't read Columbia's Code of Conduct rules but I doubt it permits assault and battery.
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Using a gag spray is "assault and battery"?
So I'm wondering if the payout is because Columbia didn't follow its own rules regarding how COC violations are handled
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They gave a student a lengthy suspension based on false claims made by pro-Hamas students.

Meanwhile, these students are not even trying to hide their allegiances.
Pro-Palestinian Columbia University group calls for armed resistance: 'violence is the only path'
USA Today said:
A group of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University are scaling up their rhetoric against Israel, calling for "liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance."
In a statement posted to Instagram Tuesday, Columbia University Apartheid Divest rescinded its apology made in April on behalf of a member who told school officials, "Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists."
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On the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks, the Columbia student group disseminated newspaper copies with the headline, "One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood, Revolution Until Victory," and posted an essay calling the assault a "moral, military and political victory," the New York Times reported.
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Derec said:
Arctish said:
Derec said:
Arctish said:
Columbia Students Allegedly Sprayed With Putrid Chemical at Pro-Palestine Rally
Click to expand...
In other words, unsubstantiated allegations from members of Palestinian groups written about in a student newspaper.
Click to expand...
The NYPD investigated the reported chemical attack and the student responsible was suspended, which he thinks is unfair because he says it was a novelty gag spray, and never mind that it's still assault to spray that shit at people and appears to have been done to disrupt a peaceful political protest.

I'm sure Columbia's Code of Conduct forbids students from spraying chemical irritants at each other.
Click to expand...

It turns out it was "fart spray" and the claims that it was skunk were just lies by the Israel haters.

Columbia pays $395,000 to student suspended over protest ‘fart spray’
Teh Grauniad said:
Columbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campus demonstrations in support of Palestine.
The Israeli student who received the payout had been suspended until May.
The case was first described as a possible chemical attack involving the use of skunk spray, an agent developed in Israel and used as a crowd-control weapon, most commonly in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But Columbia has said the spray used was novelty, non-toxic fart spray, bought on Amazon for $26.11, and not a chemical agent.
A lawsuit that the student filed against Columbia in April had first asserted that he had deployed the fart spray in question on the demonstrators “as a harmless expression of his speech” relying on a product that is marketed as Liquid Ass – and is readily available for consumer purchase.
Click to expand...
Liquid Ass: Prank Fart Spray, Gag Gift for Adults and Kids, Great for Pranks and A Good Laugh, Extra Strong Poop Spray, Non Toxic, Keep Out of Reach from Children
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Let me get this straight. First you complain that Columbia University is too lenient with protesters but you don’t think an almost $400k payout is ok?
 
Derec said:
Using a gag spray is "assault and battery"?
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Yes. It doesn't matter if it's just plain water. It's still assault and battery.

But just for you I looked it up. Here is the caution label from the back of the bottle.

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You do not spray it into someone's face, especially if someone has respiratory issues or is allergic.
 
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