Brickbat: Collegial Atmosphere

Washington State University has terminated a staff member and relieved a graduate student of teaching responsibilities after they were charged with misdemeanor assault. Jay Sani, an engineering student who is also president of the university's chapter of the College Republicans, was wearing a "Trump 2024: Take America Back" hat when grad student Patrick Mahoney grabbed it off his head and tossed it into the street. When Sani fought back, Gerald Hoff, a university staff member, joined Mahoney in taking Sani to the ground, leaving him with scrapes and bruises. Footage from surveillance and body cameras captured the assault. Both men admitted to police they were involved but downplayed it, with Mahoney saying Sani started the fight and "got what was coming to him."

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[Jerry B.]

Leftist terrorists?

[Vernon Depner]

They're following the explicit instructions of their political leaders.

[Rick James]

University of Washington attacked by violent mob, doing est. $1,000,000 in damage yesterday. Seattle Times top story: Trannies.

No statement from Mayor, no statement from Governor. Brickbat about WSU slappy face over maga hat.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Oh, I see, it's because of who has done this, and the purported reason (hint: they hate the Jews).

https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/06/mob-take-over-university-washington-building-lights-fires-gaza-war-police-protest/

Police arrested dozens of protesters at the University of Washington (UW) on Monday night after an Antifa-style mob lit fires and took over a building to protest Israel.

“About 30 individuals who occupied” an engineering studies building were arrested and will be referred for prosecution, a UW spokesperson said in a Tuesday statement. Videos posted on X by journalists showed black-clothed agitators leading the riot and calling for violence against police, the latest in a long line of unlawful outbursts targeting UW over its supposed financial ties to Israel.

“Death to the police! Abolish the police,” one protester yelled at officers outdoors as they cleared others from the building, according to video footage shared by Cam Higby on X. “Every cop death is a victory for the resistance,” a protester can be heard shouting.

[mad.casual]

Dude. Let's just agree to disagree about the merits of free speech, man.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Commies getting violent? Now I've heard everything.

[Mickey Rat]

Another case of a Leftist alleged adult having poor impulse control and resorting to violence like an ill tempered child when confronted by something that does not conform to their world view.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Khalil is being deported because he violated the contractual terms of his application to remain in the US; his exercise of his 1st Amendment rights simply advertised his violations.

If an unsuspected bank robber goes on TV and advertises his whereabouts and publicly states his guilt, his arrest is not noteworthy nor a violation of his 1st Amendment rights.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Chicken nuggets, Muslim alcoholics, ISIS terrorists, "human right to a family life"...

Leftist judges accept sob stories and twist the laws with no accountability...sounds familiar.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/04/why-britains-asylum-system-is-broken/

...the Labour government has this week tried to tighten up the asylum-application process. It has announced that anyone who has committed a sexual offence will be prevented from seeking refugee status. [Edit: Some folks here just started crying...] It will no doubt strike most people as crazy that sex crimes were not automatically disqualifying in the first place.

The rules as to who gets to stay here have effectively been delegated to the judiciary. And whatever else they are, judges are not democratically accountable and often make decisions that sound bizarre to members of the public. If we want a safe and humane asylum system then the starting point must be to re-establish a fundamental element of the process which has been lost – namely, democratic accountability.

Ordinary Brits have an entirely reasonable approach to this issue. They don’t think people who have committed serious crimes should be able to stay here. But they also don’t want deportation orders handed out arbitrarily. They don’t express blind hatred towards foreigners, but they do expect those who seek to live here to respect the UK’s criminal laws.

But while decisions to deport people who have committed serious crimes shouldn’t be taken lightly, we should still expect foreign nationals to obey the law. Failing to do so can and should carry significant consequences for the ability to remain here. This is not evil or uncaring. This robust approach to foreign criminals allows us to be more humane to those genuinely seeking refuge and asylum here.

[Medulla Oblongata]

wrong place, deleted

[Medulla Oblongata]

Gangs of "Asian" men raping children is a "dogwhistle"?

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/06/lucy-powells-rape-gangs-comment-was-a-mask-off-moment-for-labour/

It has been more than 20 years since Labour MP Ann Cryer was branded a racist for drawing attention to the industrial-scale abuse of girls in her Keighley constituency. It has been more than 10 years since Alexis Jay’s report highlighted how fears of a racist backlash from the white working classes paralysed authorities in Rotherham from taking action to protect vulnerable girls. The inquiry into Telford’s rape gangs noted that ‘a concern about racism, and being seen to be racist, permeated the minds of [local] police’. The view that it is somehow racist, or far right, to want to put a stop to these sickening crimes is precisely what allowed the abuse to go unchecked for so long. Yet it clearly remains the view of the Labour Party, from the prime minister downwards.

Lucy Powell’s comments confirm that Labour has learnt nothing at all from the rape-gangs scandal. It still views discussion about these crimes as unsavoury, uncouth and unwarranted – as something to be avoided and swept under the carpet. Powell’s real regret is that she said the quiet part out loud.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Dammit, I'm on the wrong page with my posts above!

[mad.casual]

And yet not.

[TJJ2000]

Good thing it was a hat tossed and not a fire extinguisher...

Heck; It might have been glorified into an act of insurrection and life in prison and any friends being jailed by association.

[jimc5499]

2018 an elderly man was assaulted for wearing a red ball cap. One of the local College clowns thought that it was a MAGA hat. He grabbed the hat, set it on fire and tossed it on the ground. When he grabbed the hat, he knocked the man down resulting in a broken hip and Femur. The Police caught the clown but, the County DA refused to prosecute. The DA even made a remark that the man should have known better than to wear a red hat. The hat was a Marine Corps Association hat.