Q&A
Discussion on public safety and identification procedures at CUNY
2:44:55
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Council Member Kalman Yeger and Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez debate the effectiveness of CUNY's identification procedures and public safety measures, particularly in relation to masked individuals on campus.
- Yeger argues for a rule prohibiting face coverings on campus for security reasons
- Rodriguez explains that individuals must go through security and identify themselves to enter buildings
- Yeger expresses concern about the ease of circumventing current identification processes
- Rodriguez asserts that public safety will take appropriate action if individuals engage in inappropriate conduct
Kalman Yeger
2:44:55
is the Wouldn't it a nerd to the public safety of all the students and and faculty and people who are present on CUNY campuses to have a rule that says don't cover your face on our campuses.
2:45:07
We we you know, you can't get onto a plane with your face all covered.
2:45:12
You gotta show yourself who you are.
2:45:13
It's gotta match your ID.
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Can't just walk around wherever I can't walk in here all covered up and the security doesn't know who I am.
2:45:20
Let me in the building.
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:45:21
We we we have ways, a, to be in the building means that you went through, security, and identified But but
Kalman Yeger
2:45:29
but but chancellor, if if you're causing trouble and you're showing up at a protest and yelling and doing
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:45:34
If if you're causing trouble and you're one of our students and you have to identify yourself or if you're a child
Kalman Yeger
2:45:40
But the chair already established that the identification process is meaningless because public safety walks up and says, you have ID, and the guy says, sure.
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I have ID right here.
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Here's my face.
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And then puts the mask back up and the and the security guy says, thank you very much.
2:45:53
Have a great day.
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:45:53
No.
2:45:54
If they're if they're engaged in in inappropriate conduct, public safety will
Kalman Yeger
2:45:57
make will make will make
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:45:59
the arrest or the kind of disciplinary or disperse the crowd.
Kalman Yeger
2:46:03
But, apparently, on CUNY campuses, it's not inappropriate conduct to stand about and say, things like, you know, no Jews here and, you know, shut down the hill, and, you know, you know, terrorist Jews this and, you know, Jews go away and jujuju because that's like a thing that's happening on CUNY campus.
