A teen activist and Hunter College student were caught on camera callously tearing down posters of hostages kidnapped by Hamas — the most recent incident of a disturbing trend seen across the Big Apple in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
Jonathan Isla Rampagoa, 19, who was recently a member of the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Teen Activist Project, and Frances Macalimbon Hamed, 20, were videotaped tearing down posters of Israeli hostages taped up near Hunter College on East 67th Street and Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side.
“What is your name? Are you from Hunter?” someone off-camera can be heard asking the pair, according to the footage — which went viral on X after watchdog nonprofit group StopAntisemitism posted it and identified the duo on Monday.
Rampagoa repeatedly tells the woman behind the camera, “Don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it” to which the video-taker replies, “Okay, you’ll be all over the news.”
The videographer then asks the pair if they are “proud of it” before repeatedly telling them to “show their face.”
Jonathan Isla Rampagoa was identified as one of the people taking down posters of missing Israelis taken hostage by Hamas.
Frances Macalimbon Hamed was identified as one of the people in the video taking down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.
Hamed accuses the videographer of touching her, which the person denies.
She and Rampagoa then begin accusing the person filming them of harassment.
“You’re going to be all over the news. You’re so proud of it. Show your face,” the videographers continues to say while following the pair.
Covering her face with her hands and her cell phone, Hamed then tells the person behind the camera that she is not allowed to post the flyers or to film her.
“You are not allowed to post anything,” Hamed says as the videographer disagrees.
The pair were caught tearing down the posters near Hunter College.
“You cannot record without my consent,” Hamed continues, pointing at the videographer and telling others nearby, “She’s recording without my consent.”
Rampagoa and Hamed were identified by numerous people online, including the nonprofit watchdog group.
Frances told the videographer they were not allowed to record her without her consent.
It’s unclear whether Rampagoa is also a CUNY student. The public university declined to comment to The Post Tuesday.
Rampagoa, a Queens native, was part of the NYCLU’s teen activist project while in high school, which concluded when he graduated high school earlier this year, according to New York Civil Liberties Union Communications Director Sebastian Krueger.
Jonathan Rampagoa told the videographer “Don’t worry about it” when questioned about taking the flyers down.
Hamed, a Bronx native, “has experience working in the New York City Council and New York State Assembly,” according to an article announcing she was among seven CUNY students to have been awarded the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship.
The program, through Macaulay Honors College, awards seven “student leaders from New York City colleges with three years of unprecedented personal, professional and cultural immersions in the United States and abroad.”
Hamed repeatedly covered her face while being filmed and told the videographer they were not allowed to hang the flyers.
There was no answer at an address listed for Ramagoa on Tuesday and he did not return a message on Facebook. Hamed also did not return a Facebook message seeking comment.
Countless individuals have been filmed in New York City tearing down or vandalizing posters of children and adults taken hostage in the Israel-Hamas war.
Among the offenders are an NYU student who lost their job offer over the scandal, a Brooklyn man who was arrested after getting into a caught-on-video scuffle while trying to callously rip down the hostage posters and a public defender who got to keep her job after apologizing for her brazen actions.