New York City mayor Eric Adams and New York Police Department officials insisted this week that the protestor occupation of a Columbia University hall, escalating monthslong pro-Palestine demonstrations at the institution, was carried out by “outside agitators.”  But when repeatedly pressed by media for evidence to support the claim, the Democratic mayor and officials bobbed and weaved, with Adams arguing, per The New York Times’ Dana Rubinstein, on CNBC Thursday morning that the percentage of “outside agitators,” compared to the number of student protestors, “doesn’t matter” following a spiel about the danger a professor espousing misinformation poses to young people.  “The real outside agitators in this situation have been the conservative congressional members who have showed up to campus.” “I know that there are those who are attempting to say: ‘Well, the majority of people may have been students.’ You don’t have to be the majority to influence and co-opt an operation,” he said at a Wednesday press conference, per Politico, warning of a global movement working to radicalize young people. “And so if you …