Mina Castro said that harassment of conservative students is so common these days that she felt nervous about leaving Williams at the table alone as she sat in a class.
When she returned to the table, she found her concerns had been well-founded.
“I saw our sign ripped up, all our papers were on the floor, Hayden was covering his [injured] eye,” Castro told Fox News. “I said ‘Oh my God, what happened?’”
“He said that a guy had just punched him in the face.”
She added that when she tweeted about the incident, she received hateful messages from people applauding the violence.
“One woman called me a white supremacist,” she said. “I said ‘Wait, I’m Latina!’”