Who were the ‘outsiders’ at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall?

News@lemmy.world – 64 points – 7 months ago

Who were the ‘outsiders’ at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall?

When James Carlson was arrested inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, he was already under investigation for snatching an Israeli flag out of a man’s hand near campus and setting it on fire.

That wasn’t the first time Carlson, who has no affiliation with Columbia, had run afoul of the law. He was arrested in San Francisco in 2005 during a violent protest organized by an anarchist group, according to a senior law enforcement official.

Overall, of the 112 people arrested at Columbia on Tuesday, 32 had no affiliation with the school, or 29%, according to the mayor’s office and the New York Police Department. Out of the 170 people arrested at the City College of New York, 102 people had no ties to the school, or 60%.

Let's be clear though- outsiders and "outside agitators" are two different things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/nyregion/columbia-protests-arrest-agitators-israel.html

A lot of the arrests "at Columbia" were on the street outside when people showed up to protest the NYPD, so they're including those to juice the stats

Cool, just ignore all the death that's happening and focus on American students that haven't even been murdered yet

You know that if there had been a shooting at any of these colleges we wouldn't have heard about it for more than one day.

Not when everyone has an internet-connected video camera in their pockets.

James Carlson

googles

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/violent-columbia-protester-is-heir-to-ad-empire-has-mansion-model-babymama-and-long-rap-sheet/ar-AA1o8IrP

One of the most violent leaders of the Columbia University riots is allegedly a professional agitator and limousine liberal — the scion of millionaire ad execs who owns in a $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone, has a model babymama and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp.

James Carlson, aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, is “a longtime anarchist,” a high-ranking police source said.

He bought his 2,893-square-foot, three-story brownstone with four wood-burning fireplaces and a carriage house in Park Slope in 2019 for $2.3 million, according to property records and online listings.

The provocateur, who has arrests dating back to 2005, is one of three children of prominent advertising execs Richard “Dick” Tarlow and his wife, Sandy Carlson Tarlow.

Dick Tarlow, died in 2022 at age 81 with an estate worth at least $20 million, court papers show.

Welp, I suppose that he can afford to pay for stuff that he broke at the university.

That tracks with the Portland protest:

https://www.koin.com/news/protests/portland-police-id-protest-occupy-psu-library-arrest-student-ceasefire-palestine-israel/

"By the end of the day, police reported they had arrested 30 people, of which only seven were self-declared students.

Authorities are still searching for at least 18 other protesters who fled the library during its initial occupation Thursday morning as well as its second occupation that night."

This should be higher. The vast majority of us are assigning blame and accountsbility based on sensationalized headlines and keyword triggers. The fact is we don't know the truth and let's be frank, it's easy to generate mass hysteria if you're cruel and feckless enough.