Riley Gaines says she’s taking legal action against college downplaying trans mob’s violent attack

Former NCAA swimming star Riley Gaines, who has been an outspoken voice for the preservation of women’s sports, reacted with anger and incredulity to San Francisco State University’s praising of its students for engaging in a “peaceful” protest during an incident when she was attacked by a mob of militant transgender activists.

Gaines, who was physically assaulted and forced to barricade herself inside a room out of fear for her life after she gave a speech on the school’s campus last week, slammed what can only be described as a gross mischaracterization of the situation in an email that was sent to students by Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management by Jamillah Moore.

“Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening’s event. It took tremendous bravery to stand in a challenging space. I am proud of the moments where we listened and asked insightful questions,” Moore wrote in the email. “I am also proud of the moments when our students demonstrated the value of free speech and the right to protest peacefully. These issues do not go away, and these values are very much at our core.”

“I’m sorry did this just say PEACEFUL…. I was assaulted. I was extorted and held for random. The protestors demanded I pay them if I wanted to make it home safely. I missed my flight home because I was barricaded in a classroom…,” Gaines wrote on Twitter. “We must have different definitions of peaceful.”

“I have no problem with ‘peaceful’ protest. I actually welcome it. I was grateful to see a diverse crowd in the room during my speech which I expressed multiple times. We had great dialogue and listened to each other. But that ambush was the opposite of peaceful,” Gaines said in another tweet.

Videos of Gaines being swarmed by the mob that were posted to social media show that the incident may have been many things, but “peaceful” was not one of them.

(Video: The Daily Mail)

“She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress. I was shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it,” commented Louis Barker, her husband who said that he spoke to Gaines during the nearly three hours that she was barricaded inside of the 3rd-floor room where she sought shelter.

(Video: The Daily Mail)

In a video of the terrifying experience she posted to Twitter, Gaines confirmed that she was physically struck by an assailant: “The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU…I was ambushed and physically hit twice by a man. This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces.”

The attack drew national headlines as it is no longer possible to ignore the violent tendencies of transgender extremists who have been tacitly encouraged by Democrats and the media, and Republicans reacted to the incident with justifiable outrage.

“This is an appalling attack on free speech on a college campus,” tweeted Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. “House Republicans stand with Riley Gaines and her brave and tireless efforts to protect women’s sports.”

“This is terrorism, kidnapping, and extortion. ARREST ALL OF THEM! The trans movement is out of control and a danger to children and our society,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1644382739087384579?s=20

“The leftist mob attacked @Riley_Gaines_for one simple reason: she tells the truth,” said GOP Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas. “There’s nothing fair, honest, or safe about allowing men to compete in women’s sports.”

During an appearance on Fox News, Gaines indicated that she plans on pursuing legal action against the school.

“Well, first of all, nothing has happened to the people who assaulted me,” Gaines said. “The campus police did nothing, the student or the Dean of Students was there and did nothing. There will be no repercussions unless I have something to do with it. I will be pursuing legal action. These people need to face repercussions.”

(Video: Fox News)

She also further described what happened at San Francisco State last week in an interview with the Daily Mail, “I think that what you have to do to make changes in regards to protecting freedoms is to go where it hurts, which is the pockets,” she said. “If I weren’t to do something, there would be no repercussions for these people.”

(Video: The Daily Mail)

“Something needs to be done to hold these people accountable, whether it be the student body, the administration…they need to realize is that what happened to me was violent, was completely wrong and it was criminal,” Gaines told the outlet. “They weren’t even peaceful in an alternate universe.”

“These people and the administration and the campus police, truthfully, deserve to have repercussions,” she added.

 

Chris Donaldson

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