A painting contractor hired to paint over pro-Palestinian graffiti on a university campus sprayed a group of protesters who refused to move while covering up his vandalism.
The incident took place at Case Western Reserve University, a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio.
American author Andy Ngo shared a video online with the caption: ‘A contractor hired to paint over a wall vandalized by pro-Gaza activists encounters protesters who want to stop him.’ He also proceeds to paint over them.
The video shows a white wall in an area outside the university that has been vandalized with pro-Gaza symbols, doodles and phrases.
A painting contractor hired to paint over pro-Palestinian graffiti on a university campus sprayed a group of protesters who refused to move while covering up his vandalism.
The video shows a white wall in an area outside the university that has been vandalized with pro-Gaza symbols, doodles and phrases.
The contractor nonchalantly sprays protesters leaning against graffiti as he attempts to cover up the mess, but is confronted by activists who refuse to leave.
When it becomes clear that the contractor will not stop despite the activists’ lack of movement, the first of the protesters lowers a protective plastic mask to protect his face from the paint while the rest of the team puts on the same equipment.
According to Ngo, the protesters are now trying to claim that the contractor who was doing their work attacked them with paint.
X users disagree with the assault allegations. “No one forced them to stay there, they had free will to walk away; this trophy generation is killing me,” said one.
—Yeah, and after they painted the first guy, they should have known to leave. They wanted to be painted. “I didn’t see anything,” another agreed.
DailyMail.com has contacted Cape Western Reserve University for comment.
It comes as university campuses across the country are seeing protests emerge on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7.
When it becomes clear that the contractor will not stop despite the activists’ lack of movement, the first of the protesters lowers a protective plastic mask to protect his face from the paint while the rest of the team puts on the same equipment.
Pro-Palestinian activists at the prestigious Columbia University set up tents and wreaked havoc on campus in late April, prompting other universities, such as UCLA and NYU, to do the same.
Columbia descended into chaos as Ivy League leaders and officials involved NYPD officers as the situation escalated.
In April there were more than 700 arrests by police breaking up the protests, which spread like wildfire across the United States to at least 76 other universities and counting.
Many say the United States is witnessing a crisis in academia that has been years in the making and has even spread to the United Kingdom.
In a disgraceful attempt at protest exposed by rapper Macklemore in his new music video, student protesters at the University of Ottawa misspelled Palestine while defacing a campus building.
In one scene, ‘Free Palastine’ is incorrectly spray painted on the steps of Tabaret Hall at the University of Ottawa.
The contractor nonchalantly sprays protesters leaning against graffiti as he attempts to cover up the mess, but is confronted by activists who refuse to leave.
Protests are becoming complicated across the country as supporters on both sides of the conflict clash with each other.
At the University of Mississippi, a student was expelled by his fraternity after he taunted a black pro-Palestine protester with monkey noises.
Finance student James ‘JP’ Staples was named by the university chapter of the NAACP as the student who was filmed jumping from foot to foot and growling like an ape at Jaylin Smith during an ugly confrontation on the university’s Oxford campus. .
Staples, 21, was expelled from a college fraternity on Friday because he condemned “racist actions contrary to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.”
He shouted ‘Lizzo’ and ‘lock her up’ after stepping forward to film the counter-protest as police tried to keep the sides apart.