A New York City Council Member called to “slay” student demonstrators after hundreds were arrested in the city while protesting the ongoing war in Gaza .
Vickie Paladino, an elected official representing part of Queens, wrote on X on Friday: “The NYPD confirms that 99% of arrests at NYU were indeed students, not ‘outside agitators’.”
“The sad reality is that our schools are producing monsters, and it’s now our job to slay them. Simple as that,” she continued. “And the schools and faculty who sit at the top of this chaos must be razed along with them.”
Ms Paladino’s call for violence came after police broke up the largely peaceful student protests at numerous campuses across New York City this week. The spotlight has mostly focused on the protests at Columbia, where Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD police officials have pushed claims that “outside agitators” have “radicalized” students.
Columbia faculty members have rejected these assertions from Mr Adams and the police , and many professors have recently expressed support for the student protestors.