An Israel-hating CUNY professor allegedly helped organized a vile campus protest that resulted in $3 million in damages, a pair of Metropolis Councilmembers alleged.
Councilmembers Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) and Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn) are calling for an investigations and, doubtlessly, the professor’s firing.
They declare they’ve “credible information” adjunct political science professor Corinna Mullin was among the many ringleaders of the April encampment on the Metropolis School of New York’s Harlem campus.
NYPD cops and campus police arrested roughly 170 anti-Israel demonstrators at CCNY April 30, together with Mullin, in keeping with reviews.
The demonstration led to the science constructing catching hearth and different violent incidents.
Vernikov and Yeger, who’re each Jewish, despatched CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez a scathing letter Friday concerning Mullin.
“We demand an immediate investigation, and if substantiated, appropriate consequences,” the pols wrote. “Any students or faculty whose actions led to the chaos and violence on a taxpayer-funded college, which resulted in more than $3 million in damages, must be held accountable.”
Mullin teaches at Manhattan’s John Jay School of Prison Justice and Brooklyn School and acquired $37,500 whole in taxpayer-funded wage final 12 months, in keeping with SeeThroughNY.
The novel educational has beforehand been linked to John Jay’s chapter of the Israel-hating group College students for Justice in Palestine and the “pro-terror organization” Inside Our Lifetime, the pols wrote.
Through the demonstrations, protesters fired a flare gun, sparking a fireplace on the roof of a science constructing; clashed with public security officers; and broke into an administrative constructing, the place they smashed glass doorways and vandalized workplaces, in keeping with college officers.
Protesters additionally threw rocks at campus police and pepper sprayed them amid the mayhem, with two CUNY cops sustaining accidents, a campus officer advised The Publish.
The Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned Mullin acquired a summons after her arrest however didn’t say what she was charged with.
Mullin whined to reporters at a Might information convention concerning the “inhumane treatment” she and others acquired after being arrested.
The lawmakers’ missive to Matos Rodriguez comes on the heels of a Metropolis Council increased schooling committee listening to final month, organized within the wake of a damning impartial report that discovered CUNY must overhaul its insurance policies to fight antisemitism on its 25 school campuses.
Through the listening to, Matos Rodriguez repeatedly skirted questions by Vernikov, Yeger and different pols about whether or not CUNY college students and college had been disciplined over their involvement within the demonstrations.
Nevertheless, the campus police officer mentioned he personally is aware of of six CUNY school members and 15 college students who had been collared by campus cops in the course of the April protests — and none of them had been disciplined.
“A lot of policies were violated, and CUNY is not holding anybody accountable for their actions,” the officer mentioned.
Nancy Smith, an legal professional for Mullin, mentioned the councilmembers’ letter incorporates “false and defamatory statements” concerning the educator, whom she claimed was arrested throughout a “peaceful protest.”
She insisted that Mullin didn’t violate the legislation in the course of the CCNY protests, noting {that a} trespassing cost in opposition to the educational was dropped and claimed protesters from the CUNY neighborhood had been “non-violent” and their demonstrations didn’t trigger any injury.
Mullin, Smith added, “will not be intimidated by the current McCarthyism.”
CUNY didn’t reply to requests for remark.
