Columbia blasted from all sides for refusing to call NYPD on pro-terror campus rioters: ‘It’s time we put it to an end’
NY Post
Columbia University got blasted from all sides Tuesday for refusing to call in police to roust the anti-Israel mob that illegally took over a campus building.
Hours after scores of violent protesters stormed and began occupying historic Hamilton Hall — using a hammer to break through a window and roughing up a student who tried to stop the anarchy — do-nothing officials at the Ivy League institution still had yet to ask the NYPD to address the mayhem.
Instead, the school only said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that it would be suspending the rioters and potentially expelling at least some of them for “vandalizing property, breaking doors and windows, and blockading entrances.’’
“It’s time we put it to an end,’’ former NYPD lieutenant and current state Assemblyman Mike Reilly (R-Staten Island) raged to The Post, referring to the out-of-control hooligans.
“I think it’s long past time that the governor and the mayor take the bull by the horns and treat those who destroy property, those who want to block students who want to go to classes, with the consequences they deserve,” Reilly said.
“Those damaging property and preventing others from accessing areas need to be arrested.”
ABC News staffers are blaming a dustup over provocative Instagram photos posted by “Good Morning America 3” co-host DeMarco Morgan on a wave of layoffs last year — with casualties including executives whose duties included monitoring the social media accounts of the network’s on-air talent, The Post has learned.