She says she will take legal action:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11954951/Riley-Gaines-SUE-college-praised-activists-peaceful-protest-claims-assault.html
EXCLUSIVE: Riley Gaines says she will SUE after San Fran State University praised trans-rights activists for a 'peaceful' protest where she claims she was assaulted and held for ransom - and asks: 'Does my freedom of speech not deserve to be protected?'
"Gaines, speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, argued the event was 'quite literally the exact opposite of peaceful' and she plans to take legal action to hold the school, the students and campus police - who she described woefully unprepared - accountable.
'I think that what you have to do to make changes in regards to protecting freedoms is to go where it hurts which is the pockets,' she said. 'If I weren't to do something, there would be no repercussions for these people.'
'Something needs to be done to hold these people accountable, whether it be the student body, the administration...they need to realize is that what happened to me was violent, was completely wrong and it was criminal,' Gaines alleges. 'They weren't even peaceful in an alternate universe.'
Gaines told DailyMail.com accused her alleged assailant - who she says was a transgender woman and her boyfriend said was 'a guy in a dress' - of hitting her first in the shoulder and then in the face before an undercover campus cop came to her rescue.
The swimmer claimed she was barricaded in a room at San Francisco State University for three hours to protect herself from the 'vengeful' mob who were demanding they be let in to 'fight' her. San Francisco police said there were no arrests.
Gaines also alleged that the protesters 'demanded money' in exchange for her freedom, which she sees as being held for ransom, a federal offense.
She said that she's dealt with campus police all over the country at speaking engagements and that they are usually prepared but said that she started to sense something was wrong at San Francisco State when, she claims, police skipped out on a meeting 90 minutes prior to her speech.
Gaines believes that a fear of being accused by the woke mob of having done something untoward to one of the students is what led to her situation.
'What I noticed about these police to what they actually admitted to was they didn't feel comfortable asserting themselves in a way that would make them seem as if they were in a position where they could be accused of racism or transphobia,' she claimed.
'They were terrified which resulted in them not doing their job correctly,' she alleges. 'I have been to many other campuses where I have spoken about this same topic and campus police did a phenomenal job.'
'They could have found me and talked to me,' she said. 'They never said anything.'
The only excuse she says she has been given as to why there was no plan in place is that they thought 'someone else had communicated it on our behalf.'
Gaines says that San Francisco State University police have reached out to her to set up a meeting in an attempt to clarify what happened, but she says no one else from San Francisco State, aside from a friend who attends the school, has contacted her.
'These people and the administration and the campus police, truthfully, deserve to have repercussions.'"