An anti-Israel protester was charged with terroristic threats at a Bakersfield City Council meeting in California this week.
Riddhi Patel was arrested and charged with 16 felony counts involving terrorizing and threatening the seven city council members and the mayor. She’s in jail on a $1 million bond.
Ms. Patel’s arrest came after two appearances during the city council’s public comment section of its meeting Wednesday when she threatened to murder Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh and the city council members for not backing a Gaza cease-fire resolution.
A recording of the meeting showed Ms. Patel declaring she would go to the officials’ houses and murder them, adding that oppressed minorities would use the guillotine on them and that even Jesus Christ would kill them.
Ms. Patel, a 28-year-old Indian American, accused the city council of not caring about Palestinians or any other minority group.
“I remind you that these holidays that we practice, that other people in the global south practice, believe in violent revolution against their oppressors, and I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all of you mother———-,” she said.
Ms. Patel’s arrest came after her second round of remarks at the podium.
She bashed the council and mayor for installing metal detectors in the building and accused them of trying to “criminalize” protesters. Then came her threat.
“We’ll see you at your house,” she said. “We’ll murder you.”
The video shows Ms. Goh gesture to police officers in the room as Ms. Patel left the lectern.
“Ms. Patel, that was a threat, what you said at the end,” the mayor said. “And so the officers are going to escort you out and take care of that.”