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Their unique brand of stupidity that is.
The morning after New York City police flooded Columbia University and arrested at least 100 students and faculty for trespassing on their own campus, Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard — who rode into the scene last night on top of an armored military vehicle — got on a morning talk show to claim that protestors brought a heavy duty chain to barricade doors.
“This is not what students bring to school,” Sheppard said, holding the chain to the camera. “These are heavy industrial chains that were locked with bike locks, and this is what we encountered on every door inside of Hamilton Hall.”
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But this is exactly what students bring to school, and it’s a bike lock chain that’s recommended to them through the Columbia University website. As journalist Aric Toler and several others have pointed out on social media, this exact Kryptonite brand lock was recently on sale through Columbia's Public Safety department, as part of its "Crime Prevention Discount Bike, Locker and Laptop Lock Program.”
The City journalist Katie Honan showed the flyer to Sheppard at a press conference Wednesday morning, and he repeated the claim that students would not bring this chain to school. But this lock is not only recommended by Columbia’s own security department; it’s one of only a handful that actually carries a guarantee in Manhattan.
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The morning after New York City police flooded Columbia University and arrested at least 100 students and faculty for trespassing on their own campus, Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard — who rode into the scene last night on top of an armored military vehicle — got on a morning talk show to claim that protestors brought a heavy duty chain to barricade doors.
“This is not what students bring to school,” Sheppard said, holding the chain to the camera. “These are heavy industrial chains that were locked with bike locks, and this is what we encountered on every door inside of Hamilton Hall.”
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But this is exactly what students bring to school, and it’s a bike lock chain that’s recommended to them through the Columbia University website. As journalist Aric Toler and several others have pointed out on social media, this exact Kryptonite brand lock was recently on sale through Columbia's Public Safety department, as part of its "Crime Prevention Discount Bike, Locker and Laptop Lock Program.”
The City journalist Katie Honan showed the flyer to Sheppard at a press conference Wednesday morning, and he repeated the claim that students would not bring this chain to school. But this lock is not only recommended by Columbia’s own security department; it’s one of only a handful that actually carries a guarantee in Manhattan.
Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
Columbia University allowed police to storm campus Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner accused student protestors of using an "industrial" chain to barricade doors.
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Tax dollars hard at work yall.
