Motorist charged with assault for striking CUAD protester with car at picket outside trustee's home

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/08/motorist-charged-with-assault-for-striking-cuad-protester-with-car-at-picket-outside-trustees-home/

Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator.

Police arrested three individuals at the demonstration, including Kahane and the 55-year-old female protester he struck, who sustained a leg injury and was hospitalized. She and a 63-year-old male protester with CUAD were arrested for banging on the hood of the driver’s car when it drove into the crowd, the spokesperson said.

The two protesters and Kahane remained in police custody as of 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday. As of Wednesday morning, Kahane was charged with one count of assault with intent to cause physical injury with a weapon, a class D felony. He is reportedly related to Meir Kahane, a rabbi and Israeli right-wing extremist who was assassinated in New York City in 1990.

The 55-year-old protester, a Columbia alum, was arrested for attempted criminal mischief in the fourth degree and unlawful assembly, which are class A and class B misdemeanors, respectively. The 63-year-old protester was arrested for attempted criminal mischief in the fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor.

[obamanut2012]

1. "She and a 63-year-old male protester with CUAD were arrested for banging on the hood of the driver's car when it drove

into the crowd"

Wow. That is some Orwellian garbage. A dude tries to hot you with his car, you bang the hood of the car that then hits you, and you get arrested for banging the car hood with your hands.

Jesus.

[Wonder Why]

3. My guess is the car banging occurred before he drove into the injured

victims as if you had a leg injury serious enough to require hospitalization, you likely did not have the ability to bang on the car.

[obamanut2012]

5. The arrest for banging on the hood is ridiculous

[unc70]

2. Arrested for banging on hood of car driving into crowd!?

If a car was driving into a crowd that includes me, I would certainly be banging on its hood. What kind of trumped up BS charges are these against the victims? Kahane appears to have all the culpability.

[Jedi Guy]

4. Stay out of the street, children. That's where the cars are, you see. N/T

[obamanut2012]

6. So you are good with cars plowing into protestors?

Wow.

[Jedi Guy]

7. That's an interesting leap on your part, I must say.

I noted that the street is where the cars are. As it turns out, your odds of being hit by a car go way down if you don't stand in the street. That's why it's generally wise not to stand in the street. That's usually the smart play.