Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) ripped Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for dropping the charges against many of the pro-Palestinian protestors who occupied a Columbia University building during an April demonstration.
“There is no justice system when you have Alvin Bragg as your prosecutor,” Zeldin, also a former New York gubernatorial candidate, said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends. “So, for those helpless Jewish students and members of the faculty who were hoping that there would be consequences after watching all of these crimes getting committed, this is another day of disappointment.
In a court hearing Thursday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced it would not pursue criminal charges for 31 of 46 people initially arrested for trespassing after they took over an administration building on Columbia’s campus.
The DA’s decision came in part from a lack of evidence linking the protestors to…
