Illinois State U. Teacher’s Assistant Arrested After Allegedly Flipping Turning Point USA Table
“Well, you know, Jesus did it, so you know I gotta do it, right?”
This stuff happens all the time. People on the left react like spoiled two year-olds when they see something they don’t like.
FOX News reports:
Illinois State University teacher’s assistant flips Turning Point USA table, tears down flyers: ‘Jesus did it’
An Illinois State University faculty member was arrested after he was accused of flipping a Turning Point USA student group’s table and tearing down promotional flyers on campus last week.
Derek Lopez, a 27-year-old graduate student and teaching assistant at the university, was captured on camera speaking to a man standing near the table set up by students in the conservative group to promote political comedian Alex Stein’s upcoming event at the institution, before he then tossed the table, video shows.
“Well, you know, Jesus did it, so you know I gotta do it, right?” Lopez told the man before he was seen flipping the table over.
“Thanks guys, have a great day,” he later sneers as he waves and leaves the area.
Lopez also allegedly disrupted a second informational table hosted by a student group, according to Illinois State University Police.
He was arrested on Friday and faces charges for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. Police said the case is pending and may be grounds for additional charges and university disciplinary action.
“We are committed to protecting the First Amendment rights as well as safety of everyone in our campus community,” Police Chief Aaron Woodruff said in a statement.
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Well since he wants to emulate Jesus I guess his penalty should be crucifixion. That will give him a small amount of time to think about his actions.
The kid should have paid more attention in Sunday School – then he would have known that Jesus flipped the tables of the money lenders. If he were going for a re-enactment, he should have gone to the banks and upset things there.
What’s the difference? Free trade, free thought, the point is the violence. He’s correct to say Jesus did the same thing; but Jesus was wrong to do so. They both committed a violent crime and deserve the same penalty.
Unless you believe that Jesus was God and therefore the temple was his property, and he had the right to do what he wanted there, in which case the distinction between the two cases is that this guy doesn’t own the university.
Good God, dude, if you think flipping a table is violence, you’ve got bigger problems than anyone here can help you with.
Yes, it is definitely violence, and he will face justice for it. He’s already been fired, as is right and proper.
You need help.
So you’re an Antifa person too?!
I think we can safely conclude that he wasn’t going for a re-enactment. He was just looking for a snarky excuse to wreck their stuff.
In addition to the criminal stuff, the perp should be fired and expelled.
Well he’s been fired and considering the cost of school these days he’ll have to leave or take on huge debt,
I would definitely consider flipping my table over to be violence. So much so, that it would possibly scare me into taking immediate violent action toward the one who flipped it, in self-defense.