Posted on 02/01/2022 5:38:09 PM PST by Trillian
A former UCLA lecturer who threatened to carry out a mass shooting at the school was arrested in Colorado on Tuesday morning where he had also made threats against a different campus in an 'alarmingly' violent 800-page manifesto.
Matthew Harris, 31, was taken into custody near the University of Colorado Boulder campus on Tuesday by SWAT teams.
On Sunday, he posted 300 unhinged and threatening videos on YouTube, and then he sent emails to UCLA staff threatening a mass shooting. He included details of the manifesto, which also had references to Boulder in it.
UCLA banned in-person classes and told the authorities about the Boulder references. Harris had worked at UCLA until last year but was put on leave after complaints from students that he had sent some of them pornography.
On Tuesday, after learning of the threat, Boulder Police Department issued a shelter-in-place warning near the college. It also evacuated an elementary school nearby.
At around noon local time, Harris was arrested off-campus but nearby. Video showed him being led away in handcuffs by SWAT teams.
Boulder Police Chief Maris Harold said at a press conference afterwards that detectives were still working through the manifesto but that it was 'alarming' in its violence.
'This is 800 pages we're going through. The level of violence we saw in the manifesto was so alarming.'
She added that he'd tried to buy a gun in November last year but thankfully, was not sold one.
On Tuesday afternoon, UCLA school announced he had been arrested in Colorado.
'I am greatly relieved to share that law enforcement officers in Colorado have taken into custody the individual who made threats against some members of our UCLA community yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The cops may have to hire dozens of philosophers in order to properly analyze this text. I remember back in philosophy class, we spend nearly a week on two paragraphs of Kant.
An interesting tidbit. They didn't say why not, but I'm guessing scrawling "Kill Whitey Kill KILL KILL" on his 4473 probably wasn't the most diplomatic approach...
Harris taught a number of philosophy classes... as well as PHILOS 168: Philosophy of Race.
I'll bet that one was a doozy.
No mention of his being a left-winger (and he almost certainly was). Had he been a MAGA guy, that would have been the focus of the article.
300 threatening videos posted on YouTube, without going to YouTube jail. Must not be conservative...
Kamala’s cousin
“...300 threatening videos posted on YouTube, without going to YouTube jail. Must not be conservative...”
That, plus he’s of the darker, protected, pigment species.
We could use a healthy amount of skepticism in our current era of "trust the science".
I wonder why he chose Boulder, Colorado?
Has CNN hired him yet?
I can see the tards at UCLA Admin falling all over themselves to hire this clown
DOJ has a special assignment for him.
The guy wrote an 800 page manifesto—and then attempted to buy exactly one gun....
For that big a manifesto you would think he had a warehouse full of ordinance.
;-)
I wonder what his pronouns are?
Mimicking the Daily Mail headline writers:
Dramatic moment when the suspected terrorist UCLA lecturer was arrested by SWAT team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASMIbsJo05E
A bullet to the head is what’s needed.
Indeed - but what constitutes thinking? What constitutes existing? Descartes, you are assuming what you need to prove - next!
About the 800 page manifesto... did he use MLA or Turabian Manual of Style for the footnotes?
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