The “suicidal” Cornell University engineering student who was arrested for threatening to kill Jews on campus apparently made good on his promise of online violence from his mother’s house, where he stayed on weekends because she was “worried about his mental health”.
Patrick Dai’s mother, Bing Liu, spoke through tears at her home outside Rochester about how she feared for her son’s well-being before his arrest in an interview with the city’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper on Tuesday.
“Because I’m concerned about his mental health, every Friday after his lessons… I would go to Cornell to bring him back home, then I would take him back on Sunday night,” she told the newspaper.
Dai, 21, was captured by the feds on Halloween after threatening to shoot up a diner serving Jewish students and execute other Jews with an “assault rifle.” He allegedly made the threat in late October from his home.
The incident came after the Ivy League campus in leafy Ithaca, New York, was on the verge of a series of anti-Semitic graffiti that emerged after a professor said he found the Hamas attack on September 7 “exhilarating.” October.
Bing Liu (left), Patrick Dai’s mother, leaves federal court with her son’s attorney in Syracuse last Wednesday. AP Dai’s mother partly blamed her son’s use of Lexapro. Stephen Yang
Liu claimed that her son’s threats were prompted in part by his use of the antidepressant Lexapro, which was actually making him more depressed, and she worried that he now has “no future” after facing five years in federal prison for posting threats to kill. or hurt. another that uses interstate communications.
Liu chastised the Justice Department for failing to mention that Dai apologized for his mass murder promise in an online post hours later.
“Apologies,” the post supposedly began. “There is no place for divisive statements in person or online. I’m sorry.”
Dai, 21, is accused of threatening to kill fellow Jews at Cornell. Broome County Sheriff’s Office/AFP via Getty Images
The letter continued to describe his threats against his “innocent” colleagues as “shameful” and was signed as “a depressed and suicidal person.”
“Why didn’t they reveal this important information?” her mother asked. “Also, why didn’t the school do it?”
Liu, who studied in Israel decades ago and displays a Star of David in his home, says he was “shocked” to read about his son’s admitted threats and said he had not slept since.
He told the outlet that he is concerned that Dai is not receiving treatment for his depression at the Broome County Jail.
Dai’s mother said she would pick up her son after school on Friday and take him home because she was worried about his mental well-being. Stephen Yang
“I worry about him,” Liu said. “He needs to take medicine.”
Last week, school officials called for Dai to be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” and Monica Gebel, executive director of the Levine Center to End Hate at the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, told the newspaper that Dai should be stopped in its entirety. responsible, despite her apology.
“The war between Israel and Hamas has unleashed such online vitriol against Jews and Muslims, and with such misinformation behind the messages that the spread of open hatred was now acceptable,” he said of his fears.
Dai allegedly made the threats from his mother’s home. Stephen Yang Dai’s mother said she is concerned that she is not receiving treatment for his depression at the Broome County Jail.Stephen Yang
“I thought we had really entered an era where harassment and hate speech against Jewish students was now widespread publicly and that student anti-Semitism was no longer something people hid,” Gebel said of his reaction to the threats. .
The Anti-Defamation League said Sunday that there had been a 388% increase in harassment and assaults against Jews in the United States since war broke out in the region a month ago.
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