{"id":54503,"date":"2025-11-28T06:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T06:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:03:05","slug":"college-student-whacks-elderly-man-with-taco-bell-cup-after-schools-tpusa-chapter-gets-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54503\/","title":{"rendered":"College student whacks elderly man with Taco Bell cup after school’s TPUSA chapter gets approved"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Colorado college student was detained by a police officer earlier this month for striking an elderly man during a campus meeting about approving a Turning Point USA chapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Fort Lewis College campus police report details student Megan Elizabeth Hope Mollett being caught on camera and detained by a police officer after hitting local resident Dave Peters, who was celebrating the TPUSA chapter being approved on November 7.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred after the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College (ASFLC) voted to approve the TPUSA chapter in an emergency meeting. Their decision came after they previously rejected senior Jonah Flynn\u2019s proposal to register the group, which had sparked controversy across campus.<\/p>\n

The police report was filed as \u201charassment\u201d and Mollett was let off with a warning.<\/p>\n

According to the police report, the meeting consisted of around 70 attendees with many sharing opposing political beliefs. The report describes an \u201celderly male\u201d in a red jacket approaching a student who was \u201cbooing and yelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe male pulled out his phone and began recording the student with his phone approximately a foot away from the student\u2019s face,\u201d the report stated. \u201cThe male was identified as Dave Peters and the student who appears female was later identified as Megan Mollett who goes by Nova and identifies as they\/them. Mollett began to strike Peters [sic] phone and hand with an empty Taco Bell cup after he approached with his phone in his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peters, 66, the former chair of the La Plata County GOP and retired executive at Chevron Corporation, told Fox News Digital on Monday that he did not want to press charges against Mollett, but he did want the university to take disciplinary action.<\/p>\n

Megan Elizabeth Hope Mollett was caught on camera hitting local resident Dave Peters. FOX News<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter they adjourned the meeting and the people started walking out, about 20 of us started clapping and then there was a fair amount of students that were booing,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, right after that, there was this 55-year-old or 60-year-old guy that later we found out he was a former professor at Fort Lewis College, and he started to come up to me, and he said, you\u2019re a Nazi, you are a fascist and kept on repeating that,\u201d Peters added.<\/p>\n

Peters was referring to David Kozak, a retired Fort Lewis professor who was upset over the TPUSA chapter being approved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time Mollett was being detained by police, Kozak, a former professor of anthropology at Fort Lewis College, was caught on camera yelling in reaction to the approval of the chapter.<\/p>\n

The ASFLC\u2019s decision to reverse its earlier rejection to deny the chapter apparently angered Kozak, who flipped off the person filming and called the TPUSA supporters \u201cNazis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peters is the former chair of the La Plata County GOP and a retired executive at Chevron Corporation. FOX News<\/p>\n

Neither Mollett nor Kozak responded to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

The police officer who filed the report said that he told Mollett, who goes by \u201cthey\/them\u201d pronouns, and everyone who opposed TPUSA to calm down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told Mollett I understood tensions were high due to a politically motivated meeting that was happening, but they needed to take a breath and calm down. I informed Mollett they could be charged with harassment or assault due to striking Peters. After talking with Mollett, I informed her she could go back over to her group of friends, but she needed to remain calm and take a breath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mollett and Kozak\u2019s reactions occurred after a challenging few weeks for the TPUSA chapter at the liberal arts college.<\/p>\n

Flynn was at the center of controversy when he sought to start a TPUSA chapter<\/a>, prompting a petition to urge the student government to reject TPUSA. Shortly after the chapter was denied, a counter-petition launched backing the TPUSA chapter, and it was ultimately approved.<\/p>\n

In response to Mollett\u2019s conduct, a Fort Lewis College spokesperson sent Fox News Digital the following statement.<\/p>\n

The police officer who filed the report said that he told Mollett, who goes by \u201cthey\/them\u201d pronouns, and everyone who opposed TPUSA to calm down. FOX News<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Fort Lewis College students are expected to uphold the standards outlined in our Student Code of Conduct. The college affirms the importance of free speech while maintaining expectations for civility and safety,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

When Fox News Digital asked the university if Mollett would face any disciplinary action, the spokesperson declined to provide details.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t comment on student conduct, as that information is protected under federal privacy law (FERPA). However, I can say that the college takes all allegations of misconduct seriously and follows established disciplinary procedures,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Peters told Fox News Digital that he believed in what Kirk stood for.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believed in what Charlie Kirk was doing, and I believe that his approach on dealing with people with different views was not overly combative, it was just engaging in the right way to go, and I believe in free speech,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Colorado college student was detained by a police officer earlier this month for striking an elderly man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3653,1692,9,11,10,2585,29928,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-54503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-colleges-and-universities","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-students","14":"tag-taco-bell","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}