What happened?

  • A 28-year-old activist named Riddhi Patel was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats at a Bakersfield City Council meeting. [foxnews.com, nypost.com, dailycaller.com, newsweek.com, latimes.com]
  • Patel was held on $1 million bail and ordered to stay at least 500 yards away from city hall. [foxnews.com, nypost.com, dailycaller.com]
  • Patel was seen on video claiming she hoped oppressed minorities would guillotine city government members and threatening to go to their houses and murder them. [foxnews.com, dailycaller.com, newsweek.com, latimes.com]
  • She accused the city council of not caring about Palestinians or any other minority group, calling the councilmembers and mayor “horrible human beings.” [washingtontimes.com, theblaze.com, latimes.com]
  • Patel was arrested and charged with multiple felonies, including threatening with intent to terrorize and threatening elected public officials. [theblaze.com, latimes.com]
  • The conservative X account Libs of TikTok posted a clip of Patel’s remarks, which has over 1.6 million views. [newsweek.com]
  • Councilman and Vice Mayor Andrae Gonzales said, “Sit at the table like adults and exchange ideas, go back and forth really trying to figure out how we can find a path together. Making real threats to elected officials and decision-makers is not the way to influence others.” [newsweek.com]

What is conservative media saying?

  • Patel threatened to “murder” council members and the Republican Mayor Karen Goh for not backing a ceasefire resolution against Israel. [foxnews.com, nypost.com, dailycaller.com]
  • Some of Patel’s ULF comrades have tried to distance themselves from her, describing her comments as “shocking” and insisting they “in no way represent those of us who continue to come to city council to demand a ceasefire and an end to the genocide [in Gaza].” [theblaze.com]

What is liberal media saying:

  • The war in Gaza has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians, the majority of them women and children. [latimes.com]

Sources:

  • Fox News
  • New York Post
  • The Daily Caller
  • The Washington Times
  • The Blaze
  • Newsweek
  • Los Angeles Times