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EXCLUSIVE: Washington State instructor arrested for assaulting student wearing MAGA hat

Mahoney also has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America and progressive labor groups and publicly touts his admiration for the communist party, including wearing a hammer and sickle pin in his official school portrait

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Mahoney also has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America and progressive labor groups and publicly touts his admiration for the communist party, including wearing a hammer and sickle pin in his official school portrait

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A Communist faculty member of Washington State University was arrested after allegedly assaulting a student for wearing a MAGA hat. In February, WSU junior Jay Sani was getting takeout in Pullman, Washington’s historic College Hill district when he was allegedly ambushed and assaulted by Patrick Mahoney and Gerald Hoff.

As Sani was headed home with a sandwich, surveillance cameras captured the vicious beatdown in front of The Coug, a popular campus bar packed with students, an assault that left him with multiple scrapes and bruises.



Pullman Police arrested Mahoney and Hoff within hours of the assault on Colorado St. The pair are now facing fourth-degree misdemeanor charges. Police say there was no racial or political motivation for the attack, but Sani believes the trigger was his bright red MAGA hat.

Sani told The Discovery Institute’s Jonathan Choe that he doesn’t know Hoff but has a history with Mahoney, who is on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Sani is a Republican who volunteers with conservative groups on campus like Turning Point USA. Mahoney is a WSU graduate student and instructor who teaches political science classes.

Mahoney is a notorious far-left activist who hates conservative values and is a regular at pro-Hamas protests in the city. Recently, he was part of a group that was pressuring the Pullman City Council to pass a symbolic ceasefire resolution for the Israel-Hamas War. The proposal went nowhere. Mahoney also has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America and progressive labor groups and publicly touts his admiration for the communist party, including wearing a hammer and sickle pin in his official school portrait.

Mahoney has been suspended from classes and teaching, but Sani fears he could be reinstated. School officials refused to comment on the matter.

The university is now preparing for a TPUSA event featuring conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on April 17. There is already chatter from violent militant groups like Antifa and other left-leaning students promising to disrupt the event.
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Andrew

I am a university professor. Nobody that practices using violence against others because of their political beliefs (or any other beliefs) should be allowed to teach, period. The instructor must be fired because how will a student with views different from his take a class he is teaching without fearing violent reprisals? The other staff member involved should also be fired.

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