NYPD release video showing professional 'protest consultant' at Columbia University

The New York City Police Department released a video showing a master "protest consultant" who was seen connected different societal media videos instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators arsenic they took complete Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University overnight Monday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said astir extracurricular agitators during a property convention Tuesday evening.

"What should person been a serene protest, it has fundamentally been co-opted by master extracurricular agitators. We were highly cautious astir releasing our intel accusation because our extremity was to guarantee nan information of nan students, nan faculty, and without demolition to property," Adams said. "We person sounded nan siren respective times earlier astir outer actors who attempted to hijack this backstage protest."

Adams and members of his management shared accusation astir nan extracurricular actors who were creating "serious nationalist information issues" astatine nan protests.

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NYPD officials said outer actors astatine anti-Israel protests are introducing caller protesting tactics. (NYPD)

"These outer actors are evidently not students, and their beingness connected field is simply a usurpation of Columbia’s intelligibly stated policy," Adams said. "This group…is an extracurricular agitator pinch a history of escalating a business and trying to create chaos. It is our belief they are now actively co-opting what should beryllium a serene gathering. This is to service their ain agenda. They are not present to beforehand bid aliases unity aliases let a serene show of one's voice. They are present to create discord and divisiveness."

The politician urged anyone progressive to locomotion distant "now."

During nan property conference, police said some of nan extracurricular agitators person been known to nan NYPD for years, adding that they person seen an escalation successful strategies constabulary judge are nan consequence of guidance from extracurricular agitators.

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NYPD shared video of anti-Israel agitators breaking into a building astatine Columbia University done nan windows overnight Monday. (NYPD)

For example, constabulary are seeing barricades being made retired of furniture, cameras being destroyed, de-arresting tactics, spot destruction, and signs being utilized to fortify and create shields.

Police said moreover though nan strategies really became exposed past nighttime astatine Columbia University, they expect it will proceed crossed universities successful New York City and crossed nan country.

In a video shown during nan property event, 63-year-old Lisa Fithian is seen watching a group of protesters chant anti-Israel slogans.
 

"We’re trying to archive them being a- -holes," Lisa Fithian said to nan camera person. "You’re right. They are being a - -holes."

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Fithian is simply a master "protest consultant" who has been arrested complete 80 times, Laura Ingraham of "The Ingraham Angle" said connected her show Tuesday night. 

Fithian has reportedly participated successful protests connected ambiance change, Occupy Wall Street, and now, nan Free Palestine movement.

After midnight Tuesday, Fithian was seen connected video instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators arsenic they took complete an world building astatine Columbia University.

In 1 video clip, protesters were seen carrying a table, while successful nan background, Fithian could beryllium heard saying, "I can’t thief pinch that. You guys tin thief pinch that."

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NYPD officials said outer actors astatine anti-Israel protests are introducing caller protesting tactics. (NYPD)

In different clip, nan mob was seen attaching a portion of furnishings to nan doorway of a building, while Fithian tells group pinch cameras to move back.

During "The Ingraham Angle" connected Tuesday evening, Ingraham said pinch Ira Stoll, nan laminitis and editor of theeditors.com, astir Fithian and what she gets retired of helping to train nan caller procreation of activists.

"Some of nan group progressive are being paid money," Stoll said, explaining he authored an article for The Wall Street Journal precocious astir really these groups are advertizing for fellows to beryllium paid $3,000 to activity 8 hours a week for 3 months, connected campuses crossed nan U.S. "Some of nan group who person been rather prominently successful these protests person been paid fellows pinch hundreds of thousands of dollars from nan Soros Open Society Foundation and nan Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

"So, there’s large money down these protests," Stoll added.

He besides said astir really galore of nan group astatine nan anti-Israel protests taking spot astatine campuses for illustration Columbia University are nan aforesaid group who be Black Lives Matter protests, arsenic good arsenic anti-Trump protests.

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"It’s nan aforesaid group retired protesting. I’ve seen them," Stoll said. "They conscionable for illustration to protest."
He compared it to group who spell retired connected weekends to play sports aliases spell to belief services.

"This is an activity for these people, and until nan gyration is accomplished, they’re not going to stop, aliases other until they are successful jail," he said.