Man busted at Columbia protest accused of burning Israeli flag

WPIX via Yahoo ^ | May 2, 2024 | Mira Wassef

[grundle]

A man who was arrested during the Columbia University protests on Tuesday is also accused of stealing and burning an Israeli flag during a Manhattan protest last month, police and sources said Thursday.

James Carlson, 40, of Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday and charged with criminal mischief, arson, and criminal possession of stolen property in connection to the April 20 incident, according to the NYPD.

Carlson allegedly took the 22-year-old man’s Israeli flag and lit it on fire during a protest near West 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue at around 10 p.m., authorities said.

The victim followed Carlson and two accomplices into the crowd when one of the accomplices threw a rock at the man’s face, police said. The victim suffered minor injuries and refused medical attention at the scene.

The other two suspects have not been arrested, police said.

Sources said Carlson was among the protesters arrested at Columbia University Tuesday night. He was charged with criminal trespassing.

Carlson was arraigned in the flag and protest incidents on Thursday and released without bail, according to court records.

[SaveFerris]

Yeah

I think alcohol has destroyed some part of his brain 🧠 😞

[SaveFerris]

basically very sane years ago

Thanks autocorrect

[sasquatch]

Name (R)

[Lazamataz]

Kill him.

[Bob434]

Yeah I’ve got a friend like that- his mind is truly going- and he goes on tangents about many different topics- I guess we gotta give folks like that some leeway- knowing that their mind isn’t right anymore, but out and out racists and antisemites who rant and rave, then no- I would not continue friendship with them.

My friend is the type person that corners folks and rants about everything-most have broken off friendship with him, others like me just keep our distance as best we can, if cornered I try to endure the rants, and move along as soon as possible.

[SaveFerris]

He’ll have land...

But I don’t think I can even stand to visit him these days

😄😆🤣😹😁

[SaveFerris]

It will take a miracle and drying out to fix him I think

🛐🙏✝️

[Lurker]

“My friend called me last night and spent about 20 minutes railing on the Jooz..”

You need a better class of friends.

L

[SaveFerris]

I’m hoping Laz can come through with the robots

🤣🤣🤣

[nopardons]

BTTT

[bgill]

The “United States Flag Store” sells 3x5 foot Israeli flags for $5.99. Sure, he shouldn’t have done it but is $5.99 even a misdemeanor? It costs more to write up the charges and lets not talk about the lawyers and court costs.

[hardspunned]

So, this is Kristallnacht?
That’s an insult to what the Jews of 1938 Germany experienced . “Anti Semitism” has been cheapened and denigrated the same way “racism” has. If someone protests what the government of Israel does, as very many Israelis do, it’s Nazism. What a joke.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Protestors should be careful today on the 54th anniversary of Kent State.

https://youtu.be/ZwajGL8nI00?si=VIgJ6wLT3EXBuUJP

[one guy in new jersey]

If those government sociopaths manage to up it to a hate crime though...

[SaveFerris]

Thanks for taking that way, way out of context

You’re usually more reasonable than that 🙄🙄

I’m just saying this bizarre hatred is probably how that eventually happened

[rmlew]

Do the same to an American flag and nobody cares. Tell me who runs everything without telling me who runs things.
Assaulting someone to steal and burn their property is a crime. Assaulting someone to silence them and intimidate others is also a crime.

[rmlew]

If the U.S. Congress ends up getting its way, even burning an Israeli flag one has purchased, and legimately owns, will be a federal crime—a “hate” crime—and lead to arrest, prosecution, conviction, and jail time.
No, it won't be. Fortunately for you, being a fool too lazy to read legislation before commenting about it will also not be a crime.

H.R.6090 - Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023

SEC. 6. Other rules of construction.

• (a) General rule of construction.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed—
• (1) to expand the authority of the Secretary of Education;
• (2) to alter the standards pursuant to which the Department of Education makes a determination that harassing conduct amounts to actionable discrimination;
  or
  
• (3) to diminish or infringe upon the rights protected under any other provision of law that is in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act.
• (b) Constitutional protections.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Passed the House of Representatives May 1, 2024.

[rmlew]

The Nazi-allied fascist regimes in Slovakia and Croatia were Catholic. In fact, Slovakia was run by a Catholic Priest, Josef Tiso.

[one guy in new jersey]

Rooting through past comments to find ammunition for character attacks.

For all you know that provision will be deemed “unnecessary” and removed from the bill prior to final passage.

And then, who would be the fool?

[one guy in new jersey]

Assuming what you say is true, what is your point? Are you attempting to deny or disprove the social kingship claimed by Christ? Or say that it has been somehow been rendered void by the sins of mere men? You do not appear to have thought this through.