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.

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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      For denting the front of the car the protester has been accused of antisemitism and is awaiting trial for hate motivated assault. /s