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I have seen hundreds of comments across social media today with many people celebrating the fact that students got "bumped" with a car. Many saying that they should've been violently run over, even killed, for the offense of standing in the way of a car trying to back up. Many people say "bumping" students with a car is justified if they're in your way and don't respect the danger a car poses. Apparently here at Cornell it is okay to "bump" students with your car. Good to know!

Thousands of people believe running the students over was justified because they were "banging on his windows and threatening his life" which is provably false by the video evidence put out by Cornell itself.

Major news networks maintained this shameful lie that students surrounded his car and were banging on the windows. Cornell put out disinformation to create fake news to protect their leadership from personal criminal liability leading to thousands of people celebrating the violence against students and proclaiming it's perfectly reasonable behavior to wield a car as a weapon against them for the crime of "standing in the way".

Not only is this extremely Trump like, but similar to Trump's conduct, it likely will lead to more harm being done to students and/or Cornell staff and leadership. What happens if a student "bumps" a Cornell employee? Is that okay too? Or is it only okay when the powerful people who are above the law do it?

Since the students were pro-Palestine, Cornell will likely stick by their man and pretend the students were the ones out of line. However, how do you think it'd go if the students were Jewish and pro-Israel when a member of Cornell leadership hit them with his car and fled the crime scene?

The President of Cornell committed felony assault against students by hitting them with his car on purpose. Obviously he was annoyed and frustrated and used his position of power to commit criminal and violent acts against others. You can only use your car to hit people if your life is in actual imminent danger of death, which from video evidence his life obviously was not. Claiming he was in any danger is ridiculous, and claiming he was being harassed is a stretch. If he was actually being harassed, he should call the police not take the law into his own hands.

He is the most powerful man in Tompkins County and it appears he is above the law. He should be arrested today but we live in a place corrupted by Cornell's power. Allowing Kotlikawful to get away with this is fascism, racism, and literal violence against students who don't support Israel.

Let's be real. He is a zionist and so is most the Cornell board of trustees. Which is why Kotlikawful felt emboldened to use the institutional voice of Cornell to play victim, as zionists are so good at, because he knows his fellow zionists will have his back.

If the students were Jewish, it'd be an entirely different reaction.

Kotlikawful supports genocide and so does Cornell's board. It's no surprise he will personally commit felony assault against pro-Palestine students and get away with it.