Q&A
CUNY's response to potential violence on campus
1:19:47
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100 sec
Council Member Yeger presents a hypothetical scenario of violence against Jewish students on campus to probe CUNY's response protocols. The discussion reveals uncertainties about the extent of CUNY safety officers' involvement in off-campus incidents.
- Yeger poses a scenario of students being physically attacked outside the Hillel
- Rodriguez indicates that CUNY safety officers would intervene in cases of violence
- The exchange highlights potential jurisdictional issues between CUNY safety officers and NYPD
Kalman Yeger
1:19:47
And, you have public safety officers who see it, and as you described, they can't get involved because it's on a city street, and they really can't do anything as you described it.
1:19:59
Let me let me take it a step further.
1:20:01
Let's say those students standing outside Hillel, instead of chanting, they had grabbed the Jewish student and started pummeling him.
1:20:08
What would your, safety officers at CUNY do in that instance?
1:20:13
Would they get involved?
1:20:14
Or would they say that it's a public street and they
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:20:16
can't get involved?
1:20:17
Can you repeat the question again?
1:20:19
Because it you had
Kalman Yeger
1:20:20
Sure.
1:20:21
The chairman described an incident outside the Hillel.
1:20:24
Right?
1:20:24
A bunch of people were yelling some stuff.
1:20:26
We didn't like the stuff that was being yelled, speaking in the vernacular.
1:20:29
Okay.
1:20:30
Assuming it's an assumption, assuming that at that instance, those students who were chanting had grabbed the Jewish student and started beating on him.
1:20:41
You had said that the CUNY safety officers can't get involved in telling these students they can't stand there because it's on a city street.
1:20:48
Would they get involved if they saw these, chanters eating up on a student?
1:20:53
And they
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:20:53
will coordinate with NYPD if they want to They
Kalman Yeger
1:20:55
would have to do a coordination of some kind?
1:20:57
They would have to call 911?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:20:59
Not that one.
1:20:59
You're saying if if NYPD is there, they'll probably follow
Kalman Yeger
1:21:01
the Let's say there's no NYPD.
1:21:03
Let's say
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:21:03
The the officers will
Kalman Yeger
1:21:04
probably Let's say let's say your CUNY CUNY safety officers are there.
1:21:08
They see it.
1:21:09
They're not gonna move them away from the front of the building, but they see them beating up on it.
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:21:13
They would definitely do that.
1:21:14
Yeah.
Kalman Yeger
1:21:14
Okay.
1:21:14
What would they do?
1:21:15
What would they do?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:21:16
Well, they they would probably, you know, break up the fight and and and try to protect the students who were there and then, adjudicate, any kind of discipline based on the actions taken there.
Kalman Yeger
1:21:26
Okay.
