Posted on 05/04/2025 2:38:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Washington State University has fired two Pullman men who police say attacked a student wearing a Donald Trump hat in a late-night brawl.
Patrick M. Mahoney, a 34-year-old graduate student, was “relieved of all teaching responsibilities,” and Gerald W. Hoff, a 24-year-old “staff member,” was terminated by the university, according to an email from Phil Weiler, WSU vice president of marketing and communications.
“While WSU remains committed to the freedom of speech and expression for all members of our university community, we will not tolerate acts of violence or hate speech,” Weiler wrote in the email.
Mahoney and Hoff could not be reached by phone for comment.
They were charged with misdemeanor fourth-degree assault stemming from the late-night fight that started with Mahoney ripping 25-year-old Jay Sani’s red “Trump 2024 TAKE AMERICA BACK” hat from his head and tossing it into the road on Feb. 28 outside The Coug, a popular college student bar just off campus, according to surveillance footage and a Pullman Police Department report.
Sani, a junior electrical engineering student and also president of the WSU College Republicans and secretary of the WSU chapter of Turning Point USA, then slung his bag of food toward Mahoney, and the defendants took Sani to the ground, each delivering a punch, according to the footage.
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Important to chop down the weeds at a local level. and not just complain.
WSU is in the East of Washington State, generally the much more conservative side of state. Western Washington is 70/30, eastern is 30/70 liberal/conservative.
Of course the university itself has became a Marxist enclave despite this. Sad to see how Marxist infiltration has been so effective.
Belated but correct decision from Washington State accompanied by wishy-washy statement.
“While WSU remains committed to the freedom of speech and expression for all members of our university community, we will not tolerate acts of violence or hate speech,” Weiler wrote in the email.
Why even bring up free speech when this had nothing to do with speech and everything to do with violence? But leave that aside. How can they be committed to freedom of speech and intolerant of “hate speech”?
He went through how many years of life thinking that such behavior was acceptable? Pathetic. WSU is definitely not hiring the nation’s best.
I always thought Eastern Washington was more liberal.
If it is liberal, it’s NOTHING compared to what Western Washington is.
I remember watching that video. Mahoney was shocked that the cops didn’t understand that the student deserved it for wearing a Trump hat. He was very nonchalant about the issue but lied when he said he didn’t go “hands on” first. He didn’t think what he did was an assault.
I live in Spokane - the county is not liberal, but the city is. It’s the same everywhere, the more urban the more “Progressive”. We have our full share of loony Left morons.
You have my sympathy. I often feel as if I live behind enemy lines in my own blue state...
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I used to live in California, which was worse, although the rural area I lived in in the mountains was more sensible than the city dwellers down in the lowlands.
More here at American Free News Network:
https://afnn.us/2025/04/25/can-higher-ed/
“WSU instructor Patrick Mahoney is so proud of being a Communist that he wears the Soviet Union’s hammer & sickle pin on his suit jacket.
Patrick Mahoney, a political science instructor, Ph.D student and self-proclaimed Communist at Washington State University in Pullman, WA, was so proud of assaulting Jay Sani, an engineering student AND, what The Left calls “person of color,” that he bragged to police just minutes after the attack.”
Penn State is the same way. It’s a Democrat dot In an otherwise Red State, except for the big metro areas like Philthydelphia and Pittsburg.
Any police report and charges?
That sh*t doesn’t fly in Spokane.
Usually, you do not see this on the Right.
His boyfriend must be so proud.
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