By Spencer Lindquist
A “mob descended” on journalist Ami Horowitz when he brought an American flag into the anti-Israel encampment at the City University of New York, yet he was the one who ended up detained by the police, he tells The Daily Wire.
Horowitz says that he was attacked by the pro-Hamas mob three different times and was detained and questioned by police, all while his attackers were allowed to continue occupying the campus, undisturbed by the authorities.
“Before I had a chance to even wave the flag – I just took it out – this mob descended upon me,” Horowitz told The Daily Wire, explaining that more than a dozen people joined in on the “brutal” and “crazy attack.”
“It began with punches to the torso, to the kidneys, and one to the private parts,” he said. “I ran back a second time, they grabbed me again. This time there weren’t any punches thrown, but two guys grabbed me in an armlock and dragged me off the property, threw me down. I went back in a third time, this time more punches were thrown, one to the throat, a headbutt. We grappled a whole bunch.”
Once authorities intervened, however, it was Horowitz, not the attackers, who was detained.
“Security and the police showed up and then they detained me, which I thought was very odd,” Horowitz told The Daily Wire, saying he was told he would be arrested if he returned to the campus with or without a camera.
Audio obtained by The Daily Wire reveals police justifying their actions. An officer told Horowitz after he was detained that they were “trying to give these kids a space to protest peacefully.” When Horowitz responded, “That’s the problem, they’re not,” police blamed him.
“They are peaceful until they feel like their space is being invaded, because they feel like this is their fight,” the officer went on to say about the protesters on the public university’s campus.
Horowitz says no action was taken against his attackers, even after he laid out what happened.
