Posted on 04/13/2024 6:21:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An Indian-American woman was arrested and charged for giving severe threats to a mayor and city council members at a Bakersfield City Council meeting in California on Wednesday. Riddhi Patel's outburst came during the public comment section of the meeting wherein she threatened to murder Republican Mayor Karen Goh and the council members for not backing a ceasefire resolution against Israel, besides installing increased security measures at the government building in the wake of the ongoing anti-Israel protests.
Who is Riddhi Patel?
The 28-year-old is a pro-Palestine protestor and is facing 16 felony counts. Of these, eight counts are for threatening with intent to terrorise, while the rest of the counts are for threatening the seven City Council members and the mayor, reports said.
Other anti-Israel protesters, who were present along with Patel, tried to distance themselves from her after she was taken into custody.
Patel was seen sobbing with tears after she heard the felony charges.
Videos of the meeting, which have gone viral on social media, feature Patel claiming she hoped oppressed minorities would guillotine city government members, Fox News reported.
The threats were issued by Patel throughout two speeches she made to the city council.
In her first address, Patel noted that she was speaking in support of the ceasefire resolution. She later predicted that the body would decline to support it and said, "...you guys are all horrible human beings and Jesus would’ve killed you himself."
While referring to those who observe the Chaitra Navratri festival, Patel later said, "These holidays that we practice, that other people in the global south practice, believe in violent revolution against their oppressors, and I hope one day somebody brings a guillotine and kills all of you...”
During her second speech, Patel targetted the mayor and council members for installing extra security measures like metal detectors in the building to ‘criminalise’ protesters.
While concluding her remarks, Patel gave a violent threat to the members and said, "We will see you at your house. We will murder you."
As she walked away from the podium, the mayor said that she gave a threat and added that officers were “going to escort you out and take care of that.”
In hell.
She may be the most intelligent member of the squad.
Yeah, but none of the Squad represent a conservative community. I don’t think the good jurors of Kern County are going to find her a sympathetic character. F’ed around, and I think she’s going to find out.
She’s a nutjob but all these felony charges are overkill.
Notice this line:
she hoped oppressed minorities would guillotine city government members.
I think they just wanted to get her attention.
I doubt they'll actually prosecute her, but they'll make her sweat for awhile.
> An Indian-American woman was arrested and charged … <
The world sure is getting complicated. Muslims have killed hundreds of thousands of Indians in the last 100 years alone. The partition of India in 1947 was particularly nasty.
So I would think an Indian woman would understand Israel’s dilemma, and at least be neutral. Certainly not pro-Muslim.
Yep. The world sure is getting complicated.
Some Indian, she doesn’t even look like she wears moccasins.
I say let her return safely to India, and continue her speeches there.
No they aren’t.
We are in a fight for our lives and not far from genocide by these antifa leftists.
We had better fight back hard
No go zone on the crazy meter. Not attractive enough for the danger zone so we’re safe.
There are Muslim Indians
I live in another at least plurality Republican County in CA. I dare say Kern County has a bigger crime problem than we do, but to a large extent these interior relatively conservative counties are strict on law and order to make it clear to the animals and lunatics in the nearby big counties that they need to play in their own backyards and not come make trouble in ours. It’s not overkill: each threatened official is one count. My prediction because it is a first offense is 12 or 18 months local time plus 5 years formal probation. Criminal protective order will mirror the temporary orders now in place
...”Chaitra Navratri is celebrated for nine days, which are dedicated to worshipping the nine different avatars of Goddess Durga, namely Maa Shailputri, Maa Brahmacharini, Maa Chandraghanta, Maa Kushmanda, Maa Skandamata, Maa Katyayani, Maa Kalaratri, Maa Mahagauri and Maa Siddhidatri.”....
I don’t think she ever bothered to look up Jesus.
It is as if an evil person cannot even silence their own conscience when it cries out in guilt. "Thou shalt not murder."
Maybe she needs immersion in her own culture. Suttee practice, perhaps, for the filthy pajeet.
It’s even worse than you think.
I remember growing up folks were Americans.
Now, we have “indian-americans”, “african-americans”, “latino-americans”, “asian-americans”, “lgbtqp123xyz-americans” and so forth.
And that’s just here.
In Israel, there are “Arab-Israelis”.
In Austria, one of fastest growing population segments is Sub-Saharan Africans. Are they “African-Austrians”?
In Mexico, “Chinese-Mexicans” are a growing minority.
The World is getting complicated....
Works for me.
Patel is a very common Hindu Kshatriya Gujarati name. So not Muslim.
Prime Minister Modi the Hindu nationalist is also a Gujarati btw.
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