By┬а┬аSpencer Lindquist
A тАЬmob descendedтАЭ on journalist Ami Horowitz when he brought an American flag into the anti-Israel encampment at the City University of New York, yet he was the one who ended up detained by the police, he tells The Daily Wire.
Horowitz says that he was attacked by the pro-Hamas mob three different times and was detained and questioned by police, all while his attackers were allowed to continue occupying the campus, undisturbed by the authorities.
тАЬBefore I had a chance to even wave the flag тАУ I just took it out тАУ this mob descended upon me,тАЭ Horowitz told The Daily Wire, explaining that more than a dozen people joined in on the тАЬbrutalтАЭ and тАЬcrazy attack.тАЭ
тАЬIt began with punches to the torso, to the kidneys, and one to the private parts,тАЭ he said. тАЬI ran back a second time, they grabbed me again. This time there werenтАЩt any punches thrown, but two guys grabbed me in an armlock and dragged me off the property, threw me down. I went back in a third time, this time more punches were thrown, one to the throat, a headbutt. We grappled a whole bunch.тАЭ
Once authorities intervened, however, it was Horowitz, not the attackers, who was detained.
тАЬSecurity and the police showed up and then they detained me, which I thought was very odd,тАЭ Horowitz told The Daily Wire, saying he was told he would be arrested if he returned to the campus with or without a camera.
Audio obtained by The Daily Wire reveals police justifying their actions. An officer told Horowitz after he was detained that they were тАЬtrying to give these kids a space to protest peacefully.тАЭ When Horowitz responded, тАЬThatтАЩs the problem, theyтАЩre not,тАЭ police blamed him.
тАЬThey are peaceful until they feel like their space is being invaded, because they feel like this is their fight,тАЭ the officer went on to say about the protesters on the public universityтАЩs campus.
Horowitz says no action was taken against his attackers, even after he laid out what happened.
