No. of Recommendations: 10
Now that it's making them look bad, let's see if the DOJ finally gets serious about them.
For the argument about there not being serious crimes here, don't overlook the fact that many of these clowns traffic their rioting across state lines.
As noted above, there's not really much to suggest that there are federal crimes being committed. Crimes don't become federal just because people are crossing state lines - you have to cross the state line as part of the crime for it to be a federal case. That's why "classic" crossing state line cases (kidnapping or carrying drugs across state lines) are federal cases - you're kidnapping or possessing the drugs the entire time.
There's no real reason to think that's happened here. A huge chunk of the people involved are students and faculty of the institutions - most of the rest are just going to be local folks. That's because these things are so widespread and happening simultaneously - there's no need for someone in Oregon to drive down to California, because there's certainly a college protest in their neighborhood already.
But mostly because the crimes being committed don't lend themselves to gaining federal jurisdiction. Trespass and property damage aren't things that you can do across a state line. Crossing a state line to join a protest and then committing trespass and property damage doesn't make it federal, either. If you can bring a conspiracy charge, that could possibly stand up a federal investigation - but that's really unlikely, given the nature of what's happened.
Finally, there's no evidence that Hamas in any way supported these incidents. It's incredibly unlikely - they rather have their hands full right now, and probably can't provide any kind of support to activities in Gaza City, let alone New York City.
So there's not really any reason for DOJ to be involved. January 6 took place in DC (a federal enclave), and nearly all the crimes were committed in the Capitol building (a federal facility). So all the cases had at least one federal component. That's really, really unlikely to be the case here.
