Cornell President Backed His Car into a Student, on Purpose

This is a hilarious article

[quote]A story that already had people talking back in April just got a new chapter, and it raises some pointed questions about how universities handle situations where they are, quite literally, the ones behind the wheel.

Cornell University's president, Michael Kotlikoff, backed his car into a group of student protesters on the evening of April 30, 2026, in the Day Hall parking lot on the Ithaca, New York campus. The students had followed him from an Israel-Palestine debate where he had delivered opening remarks, and they wanted to ask him about the university's speech and disciplinary policies. Video captured by The Cornell Daily Sun showed the president starting his car and reversing directly into the people standing behind it. One of those people, recent graduate Aiden Vallecillo, says the vehicle ran over his foot.

Cornell's own Board of Trustees convened an Ad Hoc Special Committee to review the incident. The committee concluded that no criminal charges were warranted against anyone involved, including the president. That part, while perhaps frustrating to some, was a defensible outcome given the circumstances. What happened next is a bit harder to square.

Last week, the Cornell University Police Department issued Vallecillo a one-year ban from all university property. Vallecillo had graduated just days before receiving the notice. For those keeping score at home: the man whose car made contact with a student got to drive away, and the student who was standing in a parking lot is now barred from campus for twelve months.[/quote]


The followed him to his car in a dark parking lot and surrounded it, not letting him leave. He ran over someone's foot who was "just standing in a parking lot"

They "just wanted to talk to him" lol

Also, the person was not a student.

False imprisonment is illegal

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They should all be banned for life.

Not only that, laws should be changed so that surrounding someone with a crowd of angry protestors, not letting someone egress from such a situation, or intentionally inflicting loud noises near someone for the purpose of obstruction or intimidation, should all be criminal offenses.

None of that should qualify as simply “free speech” or “freedom of assembly”.

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Absolutely. Singing a hymn around a girl going to get an abortion is chargeable but surrounding a car on a public roadway and screaming isn't?

Well.... move.