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Two maintenance workers at Columbia University who alleged that they were taken hostage by anti -Israel protesters during a riot last year and were forced to scrub swastikas.
Lester Wilson and Mario Torace settled with the university for an unknown amount, after the days after Columbia, announced racial discriminatory practices in an attempt to restore $ 220 million with the Trump administration for violation of civil rights and to restore federal funding, New York Post Informed
The disposal included $ 200 million and employees at $ 20 million at a distance of discrimination, alleging that they were victims of civil rights violations.
Wilson and Torres filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which investigated a civil rights in the school.
Trump secured disposal of $ 221m Columbia University for violation of alleged civil rights
A worker went viral when he shook an anti -Israeli protector against a wall in the form of chaos at Columbia University. (Alex Kent/Getty Image)
The two people are still proceeding with a trial against 40 protesters, alleging that they were taken hostage inside the school’s Hamilton Hall Building.
The pair, who allegedly worked at the university for five years, claims that they were assaulted as the protesters brought a storm in the building of the campus on 29 April 2024. The protesters allegedly “terrorized two people, attacked and beat them up, put them against their wish,” the case states.
When the chowkidars tried to “defend” Hamilton Hall from individuals, they were called “Jewish-lovers,” “Jewish-activists” and “zionist”. At that time, the protesters changed the name of the building to “Hinds Hall”.
Before handling the Hamilton Hall, the protesters allegedly agreed that they would “be intimidated, upset, bribes, threatens, and/or attacks and attacks and would bat and bat, who pose a threat to their plan.
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A maintenance crew member tried to barricaded himself inside the Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on 30 April 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Image)
At one point, Torace allegedly used a fire extinguishing to protect himself and hit the back by the protesters, while Wilson was shaken and furniture was pushed into it.
According to the complaint, “I am going to take twenty people up from here — you to rise up”, “a masked riot, who threatened the torres.
Both Custodians claimed that they maintained physical injuries and PTSD as a result of Hamilton Hall acquisition.
They have returned to work since then, a source told the post. Officials of the New York Police Department eventually approved the building and made more than 100 arrests.
Prior to the riot in the Hamilton Hall, the Torace needed to rub the swastika and was upset at the spirit that the Colombia failed to take aggressive action against the Vandle.
Anti -Israel protesters inside the Hamilton Hall. (NYPD)
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Torace’s complaint stated, “They were so aggressive, and the inactivity of Colombia was so disappointing that he eventually began to throw the chalk, which was left in classes, so there would be nothing to write with the Vandle.”
Fox News has reached Digital Columbia and Toridon Law, which is a firm founded by former Attorney General William Barr, who represented two people in his complaint against the school.
Adam Subs of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
