Riddhi Patel Age, Biography
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Full Name | Riddhi S Patel |
Profession | Pro-Palestine Activist |
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Eye Colour | Black |
Hair Colour | Black |
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Date of Birth | 25 October 1995 (Wednesday) |
Age (as of 2023) | 28 Years |
Birthplace | Bakersfield, California |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Nationality | American |
Hometown | Bakersfield, California |
School | Stockdale High school, Bakersfield, California |
College/University | Saint Louis University, United States |
Educational Qualification | Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience (2017) |
Controversy | Arrested and charged with 18 felonies In April 2024, Riddhi Patel was arrested and charged with 18 felonies by the Kern County Superior Court. Among eighteen, eight counts were for threatening state officials and judges and remaining ten were for “threatening with intent to terrorize,” targeting city council staff. |
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Some Lesser Known Facts About Riddhi Patel
- While pursuing her graduation at Saint Louis University, Patel was active in sports and also participated in various sports events like the Gabby Reuveni Early Bird in Cross Country and numerous track and field competitions.
- In May 2014, she started working as a data entry specialist at the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center and worked there for four months until August 2014.
- In June 2015, she began working as a Laboratory Assistant in the Developmental Biology department at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
- In June 2016, she began working as a Laboratory Assistant in the Infectious Diseases department at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
- Riddhi worked as a Server at a Mexican restaurant named Diablitos Cantina from May 2016 to December 2016.
- In 2017, after graduating from college, Riddhi moved back from Missouri to Bakersfield in California.
- In May 2017, she became a Clinical Research Data Assistant in Saint Louis, Missouri, and worked there for five years up until July 2022.
- In 2019, Patel began volunteering for the 2020 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. Later, she began working for an American political organization, Sunrise Movement, that works for political action on climate change known as the .
- In September 2020, she became a Communications Coordinator at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment and was promoted to Economic Development Coordinator in July 2022.
- In April 2024, during a Bakersfield city council meeting in California, Riddhi threatened city council members after she addressed the crackdown on anti-Israel protests and the alleged “criminalisation” of the public. Her speech which included threatening warnings against the council went viral over social media. She said,
You guys are all horrible human beings, and Jesus probably would have killed you himself. And none of you care because you guys don’t care about anything happening in Palestine or any other country where oppression occurs.”
- In her speech, she also criticized Mahatma Gandhi and the Hindu festival of Chaitra Navratri. She said,
You guys, those who votes to win in Bakersfield, parade Gandhi around and a Hindu holiday called Chaitra Navaratri that starts off this week. I remind you that these holidays that we practice, that other people in the global south practice, believe in violent revolution against their oppressors.”
- After her speech went viral, the non-profit advocacy group, Hindu American Foundation, called Riddhi’s comments outrageous and asked to put a stop to people like her.
We are outraged that this person invokes Gandhi & Chaitra Navaratri while threatening to murder @Bakersfield_Cal leaders.
The escalation of #antisemitic rhetoric from anti-Israel demonstrations into terroristic threats is a horrific reality that we condemn. It must stop now. pic.twitter.com/zCp1iwrXJu
— Hindu American Foundation (@HinduAmerican) April 13, 2024