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Really odd moment: Trump supporter removed from campus during anti-Cernovich protest–not sure why, but could have been because he didn't have a valid Columbia ID. Then someone snatched away a phone from the hands of a lady that he was with. They reported the theft to NYPD. pic.twitter.com/9irE7jaE1i
— Conor McCormick (@ConorMichael28) October 31, 2017
A right-wing activist had his cell phone stolen as he tried to crash a protest condemning alt-right firebrand Michael Cernovich’s appearance at Columbia University on Monday night, police said.
Jovanni Valle was in the middle of live-streaming himself disrupting the demonstration and waving an American flag at the school when he clashed with some of the protesters.
Police said one of them ripped Valle’s phone out of a woman’s hand as she was filming the political agitator and ran off with it.
The mob then forced Valle and his crew back through a gated entrance.
“That guy just took my phone,” Valle can be heard shouting in a Twitter video showing the incident.
Police later arrested the phone thief, identified as Brooklyn resident Arvind Dilawar, 30. He was charged with robbery and possession of stolen property.
Valle made headlines last spring when he and a pal rushed the stage during a performance of Julius Caesar at Central Park’s Public Theater.
He was also featured in the Post after he was badly beaten up and his face cut with glass during a fight at a Manhattan bar.
A sympathetic plastic surgeon — and fellow Donald Trump supporter — offered to fix Valle’s face free of charge.
