Posted on 05/02/2024 5:43:10 AM PDT by SJackson
A student who defended the American flag at a North Carolina campus Tuesday from an anti-Israel mob, said the protesters would have had to yank the flag from him over his "dead body."
Anti-Israel protesters targeted the American flag on The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's quad — which had been flying at half-mast after four Charlotte officers were killed in the line of duty. At one point, they replaced it with a Palestinian flag – enraging students and inspiring members from the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity to take action.
"I don't understand how people can act like this," said Dan Stompel, a junior studying political science at the university. He was one of over a few dozen students who stood up to a mob of hundreds as they tried to desecrate the American flag. Stompel and his fellow classmates held the flag for over an hour until police were able to clear the protest and safely hoist it back on the flagpole. All the while, the students experienced profanity and middle fingers from protesters, along with bottles, rocks, and water being thrown at them.
"We're looking at every direction. If stuff was flying in, we would say, ‘Heads up.’ We would cover each other. We would look out for other people… And it did hurt our arms. It was like an ‘arm day’ [workout] for me that day. There was no gym happening that day afterwards. It was exhausting. It was beautiful moment," Stopel said in an interview with Fox News Digital Wednesday.
"It shows that, …based on the people there, nice, normal, strong boys protecting America's flag. There's nothing more patriotic, nothing more genuine, nothing more inspiring than that," he said.
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A world of difference between Chapel Hill and the freaks at Columbia.
There are a few sane American youth. God Bless him.
That’s good. Pity he can’t make a career out of it, except in the military.
Likely a good example of what is really going on. Most of the “protestors” are professionals (as we what we saw with the WEF and Occupy events in years past) and you are getting that number of students, including this person, who probably are fed up and upset with the disruptive antics.
Amazing that someone studying PoliSci can be so patriotic. I hope be becomes a GOP politician.
Wasn’t the last time I was there, but that was many moons ago.
Hopefully they have improved.
In this bizarro world we live in, the “straight, square normies” are now the punk rock/free thinking radicals and the leftist hive mind scum are the sheep “normies”.
There was a GoFundMe account started to raise money for the Frat Bros who protected the flag and were pelted with water bottles, the purpose of the fund was to throw a gigantic party, in a matter of a few hours the fund had raised over $250,000.
Waiting for the DOJ/FBI Task Force to deploy to this college to “protect” the Anti-Israel Protesters.
Hopefully they don’t spend it all on a party.
Fixed. 😉
It would be one helluva a party if they did.
Finally, a story that makes me proud to have my advanced degrees from Chapel Hill.
$354,246 as of now (what a kegger!)
Bill Akman donated $10,000 (10,024 is the highest donation so far)
https://www.gofundme.com/f/pi-kappa-phi-men-defended-their-flag-throw-em-a-rager
Libtard dims steering us closer and closer to civil war...
Kyle Bass from Heyman Capital also made a donation, I would throw a party, if the Frat House was in need of some renovations, I would pay for them from the donations.
Hopefully news of the fund and the deed will resonate quickly in social media and open the young to some sanity to their indoctrination.
Tarheels standing strong - good job, lads!!
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