“This hoodlum bully is what passes as a college professor these days!” wrote “itsy_bitsy. Meanwhile, many commenters duked it out with each other online over the alleged attacker: This is the committed, democrat mainstream doing this stuff…not “fringe” people.” They are frustrated democrats who voted for Hillary, and now they’re putting on masks and taking to the streets and committing acts of violence. They are people with day jobs in the system, maybe even prominent people. “What this arrest shows is the Antifa are not, as so many thought, loser kids who live in vans somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Police say they have identified the assailant as Eric Clanton. In response, another commenter wrote: “A Patriot is someone who violently attacks someone with a bike lock who clearly did not harm the attacker? Okay man.”Ī man was wounded after being struck by someone with a bike lock April 15 during Berkeley protests. “Amazing,” wrote “Stan,” that “this Patriot is charged with a crime while Kushner- a Russian mole- takes in our deepest security secrets…to give to mother Russia.” Online forums on news sites were full of comments, ranging from hearty defenses of the attacker to segues into Hilary Clinton’s role in the Benghazi scandal and the current controversy over members of Trump’s team who’ve been implicated in the Russia inquiry. Scumbag bike lock attacker Eric Clanton finally arrested. Three people received “significant injuries” because of the beatings, police said. Homicide detectives handled the investigation because of the seriousness of the assaults, police said, and Clanton surrendered without incident. The alleged assaults, which were captured in troubling videos taken by onlookers and posted on social media, helped police identify Clanton as the man seen hitting people in the head with a U-shaped bicycle lock. On Facebook, Twitter and reader forums on multiple news sites, the unfettered back-and-forth bashing raged on, much like a rhetorical version of the actual melee itself. Manuel Courthouse to face charges of three counts of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon that isn’t a firearm and assault causing great bodily injury, the chatter and visual images seemed to self-propagate by the hour. This should go without saying, but because it's MMOC, I have to add a disclaimer that I think ANYBODY who commits assault should face the full power of the law.Will protest fatigue plague Bay Area climate marches Saturday?Ĭlanton, who was in custody in lieu of $200,000 bail at Berkeley Jail, appeared in court Friday morning at Oakland’s Wiley W. Good to see somebody who commits assault facing the justice they deserve. He surrendered without incident, police said. Investigators served warrants Wednesday at unspecified addresses in San Leandro and Oakland, the latter of which is where authorities took Clanton into custody. Homicide detectives handled the investigation because of the seriousness of the assaults, police said. Three people received “significant injuries” because of the beatings, police said. Police confirmed Clanton can be seen in videos hitting people in the head with a U-shaped bicycle lock. In a statement Thursday, police acknowledged that video of the incident, captured by onlookers and posted on social media, helped them identify Clanton as the suspect behind “several violent assaults” that happened April 15 during the demonstration at Civic Center Park on Martin Luther King Jr. He was arrested on three counts of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon that isn’t a firearm and assault causing great bodily injury. BERKELEY - A former Diablo Valley College professor was arrested Wednesday in connection with the use of a bike lock in the beating of three people during a rally for President Donald Trump last month, police said Thursday.Įric Clanton remained in custody in lieu of $200,000 bail at Berkeley Jail on Thursday and is scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m.
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