Eight left-wing rioters were charged with breaking windows and vandalizing property in lower Manhattan following a series of Friday-night riots. One delinquent arrested that night turned out to be a rich New York City college student with affluent parents.
Twenty-year-old Clara Kraebber is a plucky redhead who lives a life of financial privilege on the Upper East Side and is the daughter of an architect for Kindred Arch–a firm with contracts from Columbia University and New York University. Clara’s father works as a child psychiatrist who teaches classes at Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry to round out his architect wife’s paycheck, according to the New York Post.
The Kraebbers bought a $1.8-million apartment on East End Avenue in 2016. They have a second home in Litchfield County, Connecticut, that was built in the 1730s and is said to have four fireplaces.
Kraebber, along with seven other people, was taken into custody by police for supposedly being responsible for over $100,000 in damage during a wild riot from Foley Square to 24th Street that lasted three hours. The destruction was reportedly organized by radical-leftist groups called the “Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement” as well as the “New Afrikan Black Panther Party,” who support Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
Kraebber was not the only one of the eight picked up for the “Soho Starbucks Riot” who came from a well-off family. Twenty-year-old Elliot Rucka is the son of a New York Times best-selling comic-book writer whose work was the basis for the TV show “Stumptown.”
The crowds could be heard chanting “Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground!” while making their way up Lafayette Street dressed in black from head to toe as they were said to be breaking the glass windows of banks, Starbucks stores, and a Duane Reade pharmacy.
“It’s completely wrong . . . They all should be put in jail, as far as I’m concerned. I thought this shit was over!” said local business owner Kevin McGrath of the Five Points Academy boxing gym, located across from the damaged Starbucks at Lafayette and Grand streets in Soho.
“What they’re doing is not helping anyone,” the business owner of 52 years said. “I’ve been in this neighborhood for 18 years, I’ve been frustrated business-wise many, many times in my life, but I didn’t pick up a brick out of frustration and break somebody else’s small business.”
Despite Kraebber’s upper-crust background, it has been reported that the destruction she may have been a part of over the weekend with her cosplay comrades might not have been her first time partaking in Antifa’s brand of street revolution. She is a mainstay at leftist protests, reports claim.
In 2014 she explained her involvement in a New York City rally to The New York Times for the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. During the time of the interview, Kraebber was only 14 years old and attending Hunter College High School.
“We don’t have much political power right now, being youths, but this is something we can do,” she said to the Times six years ago.
A LinkedIn page that appears to belong to her says she is now a student at Rice University in Houston, and a Facebook account that reportedly belongs to her says she is a history undergrad. The New York Post reports she was affiliated with the Rice Young Democrats and pushed for Beto O’Rourke’s run against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during the Texas senate race in 2018.
“Does Beto make you feel this way too??? THEN GO VOTE!!!” she posted with a Facebook photo showing her admiration for the doomed progressive’s campaign.
“This is the height of hypocrisy,” a source in law enforcement who helped control the riot said to The Post. “This girl should be the poster child for white privilege, growing up on the Upper East Side and another home in Connecticut.
“I wonder how her rich parents feel about their daughter. How would they feel if they graffitied their townhouse?”
The young redheaded progressive and her friend are now faced with charges of first-degree riot and, if found guilty, are facing as much as four years behind bars.