Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out
“People don’t feel comfortable walking through a mob to get into campus. That’s crazy,” Mario Torres tells The Free Press. (Photo by Alex Kent/Getty Images)
‘We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed.’ A Free Press exclusive with facilities worker Mario Torres.
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It’s the viral image that captured the clash between the anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia and the campus workers who tried to stop them. As the mob invaded Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, a facilities worker was photographed pushing a demonstrator against a wall.
Later, it emerged that the protester was a 40-year-old trust fund …
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