A veteran activist joined Columbia protesters. Police call her a ‘professional agitator’
As pro-Palestinian student protesters took over a Columbia University building early Tuesday, one person in the crowd outside stood out — a gray-haired woman who delivered orders to young people helping to barricade a door.
“Tie it right to the lock,” she told two masked protesters holding zipties, according to footage posted on social media. The protesters did as they were told, using the ties on a metal table pressed against the door of Hamilton Hall.
“Let’s give them a little cover,” the older woman said to the crowd. “Cameras back. Cameras back.”
The woman was not a Columbia University student or faculty member. She in fact has no known affiliation to the school at all.
She is a 63-year-old veteran activist named Lisa Fithian, or what the New York Police Department described as a “professional agitator.”
So far, Fithian is the only outsider to have been identified by city officials as playing a part in the seizure of the building.
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