California State U Prof Indicted for Allegedly Assaulting ICE Officers
“U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said the professor was arrested for throwing a tear gas canister at officers”
Supporters of this professor claimed he was ‘kidnapped’ by ICE.
The College Fix reports:
Professor ‘kidnapped’ by ICE indicted for assaulting federal officers
The California State University professor whom the California Faculty Association claimed was “kidnapped” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has officially been indicted by a grand jury for assaulting federal officers.
In July, the CFA had alleged ICE tossed CSU Channel Islands professor Jonathan Caravello into an unmarked vehicle “without identifying themselves” or giving a reason for the arrest.
The night before the incident, Caravello had told the City of Camarillo Council that he was “patrolling the city streets following armed masked thugs trying to kidnap my [undocumented] neighbors.”
Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy and researches epistemology, rationality, and “transcendental arguments,” became involved with a protest against an ICE raid of the Glass House Farms marijuana facility.
Despite complaints by the CFA and the university that Caravello was “peacefully” demonstrating, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said the professor was arrested for throwing a tear gas canister at officers.
According to Fox News, after agents deployed tear gas to disperse a crowd that had begun throwing rocks at their vehicles, Caravello “ran up to one of the canisters and tried to kick it.”
He missed, however, and then ran after it and hurled it at the agents. During his arrest, prosecutors said Caravello “continuously kicked his legs and refused to give agents his arms.”
This past Wednesday, Caravello officially was indicted under 18 USC 111, (allegedly) “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees.” He was released on $15,000 bond and faces up to 20 years in prison.
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His employer should investigate the manner and administer discipline.
Sounds like a firing offense.
It’s the Cal State (Karl Marx U) system. Probably needs an obstruction of justice charge just to qualify for tenure.
mcivers should not be given a pass either
Good.
“Why is throwing tear gas like lying?”
“Police can do it to you, but you can’t do it back.”
Given the precedent of Democrat juries refusing to hold Leftist activists accountable for their crimes, will Caravello face consequences for his actions? It’s pretty much guaranteed his employer won’t sack him for his assault!!! That being the case, ICE and other federal officers may find that arrests are a pointless waste of time, that they are better to restrict themselves to tasering offenders and leaving them lying in the street for their fellow activists to deal with.
The grand jury indicted. And Essayli can try it anywhere in the Central district, including mostly-Republican Riverside County.
Ah thanks. I missed that.
What we are seeing consistently in polling data is that the Democrat leadership, such as it is, has gone way left of the People on crime, and doesn’t care, because this has become an ideological crusade for their elites and their media lapdogs. Meanwhile, their partisan dismissals of each new atrocity strips off more voters from the remnants of the Lower Middle Class that formerly sustained them. They are still quite formidable in their densely urban costal. enclaves, along with a few isolated middle American ghettos, but people are fleeing those areas faster than they can be replaced with newly imported serfs. That means the voting shenanigans will have to be ramped up considerably next year, but the Bad Orange Man is fighting back now, so this can’t be taken for granted. Thus the faithful such as the good professor are being called upon to attack those symbols of oppressive authority, in hopes of generating a new crop of martyrs to inspire the widespread mayhem that worked so well for the BLM uprisings. Except that we are more on to them now.
To Dean Robinson,
A very well written comment.
I agree with every word