Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator.
Police arrested three individuals at the demonstration, including Kahane and the 55-year-old female protester he struck, who sustained a leg injury and was hospitalized. She and a 63-year-old male protester with CUAD were arrested for banging on the hood of the driver’s car when it drove into the crowd, the spokesperson said.
So, yeah, apparently trying to prevent a car from purposefully running you over is illegal. It’s “attempted criminal mischief”, in fact.
These university administrations and police are such a joke.
For denting the front of the car the protester has been accused of antisemitism and is awaiting trial for hate motivated assault. /s