Grad students, professor, union leader charged in Brooklyn Bridge assault

Grad students, professor, union leader charged in Brooklyn Bridge assault by Renee Nal:

F— the police/To rise as you/Disappear below current/Interpretations of observations/F— the police, – Poetry by Professor Eric Linsker
What do three graduate students, a professor and an SEIU labor leader have in common? They all allegedly assaulted two members of the NYPD earlier this month.

A graduate student has turned herself in in the case of an assault on two NYPD lieutenants on the Brooklyn Bridge on December 13. Cindy Gorn, 29, has standard “research interests” including “race, resistance; marxism” according to her student bio.

Gorn was a part of a panel discussion for a Left Forum conference (the successor to the Socialist Scholars Conference) called “The Crisis, the Fightback, and Solidarity, from Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives,” where a description of the discussion states:

From anarchist-communist and libertarian-autonomist Marxist perspectives we will analyze the current crisis of capitalism and to consider alternate strategies for popular struggle, such as mass strikes, electoral and non-electoral action, etc.

Eric Linsker, 29, is an adjunct professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY) who “was once known more for his erotic poetry interspersed with expletives aimed at the police.” But Linsker, perhaps unsurprisingly, translated his hatred toward police into action on the Brooklyn police when he attempted “to throw a large garbage can down onto the roadway below, where other demonstrators and police officers were walking....Robert Murray, 43, is “a six-figure-earning organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)” who was also arrested for his role in the attack.