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Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out
(Photos by Alex Kent, Andrew Harnik, and John Shearer via Getty Images)
‘We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed.’ Plus: bird flu, the Met Gala, and much more.
By Oliver Wiseman
05.07.24 — The Front Page
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On today’s Front Page: Donald G. McNeil Jr. on the bird flu epidemic; Suzy Weiss on the Met Gala; our first letters page; and much more. 

But first: a Free Press exclusive.

Remember this viral photograph from Columbia last week of the janitor and the protester? Yesterday, we learned that the activist in the picture is a 40-year-old trust fund kid and self…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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