A University of Michigan student was arrested after an altercation on the Ann Arbor campus in which she allegedly shoved conservative influencer Lizzy Benichou to the ground. As police took her into custody, the student reportedly said she should have “killed” Benichou.
Video circulating online shows the unidentified student confronting two men seated at a table Sunday beneath a sign that read, “Is Islam Compatible with the West?” During the heated exchange, she clapped inches from one man’s face, prompting him to recoil.
“This is f–king stupid, bro,” the student shouted before demanding to see the group’s “f–king permit.” Bystanders filmed the confrontation as tensions escalated.
The man told a campus officer, who was apparently off camera, that the student had struck him. She strongly denied the accusation, even as people nearby said they had recorded what happened.
“I have several f–king eyewitnesses, I didn’t do f–king shit,” she yelled. She then accused the man of “victimizing himself as a fully-grown man.”
“The f–king anti-Muslim people here who want to say I put a f–king hand on him,” she continued.
The confrontation soon shifted toward a woman standing nearby, later identified as conservative influencer Lizzy Benichou. Benichou questioned whether the woman’s clothing would be permitted in Iran, prompting the student to move toward her.
“Am I wrong? If you walked around like this in Iran, what would happen to her?” Benichou asked another person nearby as the student approached her.
The student then appeared to catch Benichou off guard, shoving her to the ground before moving toward her again.
A male bystander intervened and grabbed the student before she could continue the confrontation.
“Don’t f–king talk to me like that!” she shouted while being pulled away. “You wanna f–king get over here, bitch?!”
She broke away, removed her backpack and lunged toward Benichou a second time. A police officer and another man quickly stepped in to stop her.
The officer brought the student to the ground and attempted to place her in handcuffs as she resisted.
“Don’t resist,” the officer instructed.
“What the f–k are you going to do to me? Because I hit a dumb ass bitch in the face?” the student replied.
After she eventually stopped struggling, a second officer arrived in a patrol car. Together, the officers secured her in handcuffs.
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As the student was placed in the back of the police vehicle, she said she felt no remorse for what had happened.
“I’d do it again every f–king time, you stupid f–king c–t!” she shouted.
She then added, “I should’ve f–king killed you when I had the f–king chance,” prompting audible gasps from people watching nearby.
“Are you kidding me?” one person could be heard asking off camera.
“No, I’m not f–king kidding you,” she doubled down.
“You’re sick, you’re sick. Go to a mental hospital, bitch,” another onlooker yelled at the student, who was now in the backseat of the cop car.
“I’ve already been to a mental hospital,” the student shouted back. “And I’ll go again if it means killing you.”
Benichou later reassured her followers on X that she was “OK” after being “physically assaulted simply for showing up and exercising my First Amendment rights.”
“Political violence has NO place in the United States of America,” the influencer wrote. “I am incredibly grateful to the law enforcement officers who acted immediately to protect me. I am now in a safe location receiving care and I am going to be OK.”
Benichou added that the assault happened during a “Liberty Under Fire USA tour stop” and claimed her attacker had been “identified as a supporter of Abdul El-Sayed” — the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan.
The attack came just days before Michigan voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose between El-Sayed and former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in the US Senate race.
On Sunday, Rogers received the backing of Rep. Haley Stevens — the Democratic congresswoman who was narrowly defeated by El-Sayed in a hotly-contested primary.
University of Michigan police were responding to an unpermitted event on campus just before 5 p.m. when one of their officers witnessed the attack, the department told the Daily Mail.
“As the group was packing up to leave, officers witnessed a University of Michigan student assault a woman not affiliated with the university,” police said.
“The student was taken into custody, processed and released pending warrant authorization. No injuries were reported.”
The Post has reached out to campus police for further comment.