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.
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Shouldn’t it be a personifesto?
I'll bet that one was a doozy.
I wonder if CRT originated with him? 😀😊
Two paragraphs? That’s less than one sentence for that windbag. I preferred Sartre. He was worthless but somewhat readable.
They need Clark Wittgenstein, Police Philosopher.
If I understand it correctly, the Christians were saying that proof of God's existence is evident by His creations, especially His special creation: us. To which the atheists' best response was, "Oh yeah. Well how do you even know we exist?" I mean, was that the best they had?
Typical Boulderite. What’s the problem?/s
Schizophrenia.
800 pages? Single spaced or double spaced?
Definitely voted for President Trump. MAGA all the way.
Same neighborhood as that kid in the supermarket, isn’t it?
I just searched for 10 minutes and couldn’t find 1.
Did YouTube pull them to stop the spread of radicalism or protect him? With BigTech one can’t be too sure.
Thanks for posting his pic. I just knew he’d be a White Supremacist!
These guys say they downloaded and archived what they could before YouTube yanked the videos:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/shpfyj/matthew_harris_youtube_archive/
There are links to the archives there if you want to have a look. I didn’t look at them myself.
You won’t need two weeks for this gent’s writing.
Higher education isn’t what it use to be. Mr. Kitty shared it with me today, It would not have earned me a degree.
For all we know this guy is being set up and framed by EffBeeEye. Yes people, that seems outrageous. But it is no longer unbelievable.
That is some real edge-of-your-seat video.
Hang um till dead!
Dramatic?????? LOL!!!
Good news! Ted Kazinsky was moved out of Supermax to a prison hospital so they have Supermax cell all ready for him.
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