Posted on 04/13/2024 6:21:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An Indian-American woman was arrested and charged for giving severe threats to a mayor and city council members at a Bakersfield City Council meeting in California on Wednesday. Riddhi Patel's outburst came during the public comment section of the meeting wherein she threatened to murder Republican Mayor Karen Goh and the council members for not backing a ceasefire resolution against Israel, besides installing increased security measures at the government building in the wake of the ongoing anti-Israel protests.
Who is Riddhi Patel?
The 28-year-old is a pro-Palestine protestor and is facing 16 felony counts. Of these, eight counts are for threatening with intent to terrorise, while the rest of the counts are for threatening the seven City Council members and the mayor, reports said.
Other anti-Israel protesters, who were present along with Patel, tried to distance themselves from her after she was taken into custody.
Patel was seen sobbing with tears after she heard the felony charges.
Videos of the meeting, which have gone viral on social media, feature Patel claiming she hoped oppressed minorities would guillotine city government members, Fox News reported.
The threats were issued by Patel throughout two speeches she made to the city council.
In her first address, Patel noted that she was speaking in support of the ceasefire resolution. She later predicted that the body would decline to support it and said, "...you guys are all horrible human beings and Jesus would’ve killed you himself."
While referring to those who observe the Chaitra Navratri festival, Patel later said, "These holidays that we practice, that other people in the global south practice, believe in violent revolution against their oppressors, and I hope one day somebody brings a guillotine and kills all of you...”
During her second speech, Patel targetted the mayor and council members for installing extra security measures like metal detectors in the building to ‘criminalise’ protesters.
While concluding her remarks, Patel gave a violent threat to the members and said, "We will see you at your house. We will murder you."
As she walked away from the podium, the mayor said that she gave a threat and added that officers were “going to escort you out and take care of that.”
Ms. Patel has successfully completed the f*ck around step, and is now in the ‘find out’ step. . . 😎
The “find out” step is always the painful one.
Ridhi/Riddhi is a name of Hindu (Sanskrit) origin. Often intended as an alternate name of one of several Hindu goddesses, usually taken to mean “the fortunate”. Think Felix/Felicity in common English. Asher in Hebrew. It is btw an asexual name in India, there are male and female Ridhi/Riddhi’s.
So very unlikely to be a Muslim.
I was taught to never ever strike a woman.... but this b*tch... where’s my Louisville Slugger?
Two or three years on a prison diet might benefit her greatly.
Are we stuck with an influx of fools like this nutjob Indian woman forever?
Patel is like our Smith .
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She likely is not religious, but rather, Marxist.
Indian communists and the USSR communists had an affinity for each other through the Cold War.
And Marxist ones.
I don’t see a dot on her forehead. Her belief system is probably just political.
Sort of. Its mainly an ethnic name in India (Gujarati). Its just that Gujaratis are a disproportionate part of the Indian diaspora.
Most Indian ladies in foreign parts no longer uee the dot.
Interesting. Not a Muslim name, BTW.
Not as complicated as we want to believe. The problem, IMHO, is all the lies fed to young skulls full of mush, (I miss you Rush), in American and other western societies public education systems. We’ve been asleep at the switch and not paying enough attention to the communist takeover of the schools for the past 70 years.
Until we fix that problem we will continue seeing this kind of insanity.
Import the third world, you get the third world.
No way.
There’s a God of Justice and Sanity that will rule over mankind eventually.
Fools and nutjobs won’t have a place at the table.
That dot is where you plug in the cable for your cable TV.
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