A Rutgers professor says he was forced by the NYPD to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after a student complained about his threatening tweets.
Emily Zanotti over at Heat Street reports that “feminist professor” Kevin Allred, who teaches a class on “Politicizing Beyonce” (yes, that's a thing in college now that studying dead white males like Shakespeare is considered a macroaggression) is claiming to be persecuted in “Trump’s America” for exercising his First Amendment right:
"Political statements," eh? Here is the now-deleted tweet in question:
Um, that doesn't sound so much like a political statement as a threat that should be investigated by law enforcement.
That wasn't the only one. The day after the election, Allred tweeted, “If I see any Trump bumper stickers on the road today, my brakes will go out and I’ll run you off the road.” He followed that with a video of a man burning a flag. Allred also admits to mentioning burning the flag in class.
A student complained to the administration, triggering an investigation and the NYPD’s involvement.
Allred says authorities didn't bother arresting him, insisting instead that he undergo two hours of tests at a local psychiatric facility. He was released with a clean bill of mental health.
The NYPD explains that they were simply doing a “a wellness check … on the professor based on comments he made in the classroom and on Twitter about killing white people.” Rutgers says they believe they acted appropriately. Considering the level of leftist violence being waged across the country in the wake of Trump's victory, that sounds proper.
Though he was merely investigated and examined, Allred trumpeted his victimization as evidence that a wave of fascist oppression is already underway even before Trump is inaugurated. Fellow progressives played along on social media.
Feminist Jessica Valenti, for example, tweeted a message with the ridiculous ominous warning, "It begins," implying that free speech will be suppressed under a Trump administration.
She neglected to mention in the tweet the inconvenient truth that Allred's so-called "political statements" were actually angry threats. That didn't fit the narrative of victimization that we're going to see a lot of over the next four years.
The Freedom Center's Daniel Greenfield previously wrote about Allred and his claim that "there are no good white people" here.
