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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I looked at a couple. He ain’t right in the head. AA hire.
Betcha this person likes to stick his wienie in mens’ poop chutes.
Some of us thought it looked like he developed schizophrenia on this earlier thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4034453/posts
The guy certainly has serious mental issues. The mentally ill who go ballistic like this guy so often snatch at whatever ugly or scary thing is in the air at the time, and it looks like he got all riled up over racial issues.
On the other hand, maybe having to study all that philosophy would send one around the bend. They made me read Kierkegaard in the original German back when I was an undergrad. His sentences were so long I had to flip pages to find the verb at the end and nearly lost my mind. And no, I was not a philosophy major, nor was I a German major. Who knows what fiendish stuff philosophy grad students have to endure?
My son in law has a Bachelors degree in philosophy——HE’S AN IDIOT!
Good grief, “philosophy of race”?
What is this, Nazi “racial studies” revised and updated?
That’s a good one; I remember those from my grad school days.
Colorado schools are full of commies and nuts. Nothing new, just more dangerous now.
Why arrest him? They won’t do anything to him.
Thank you.
I shouldn’t be shocked but I am again,
The sheer one sided propaganda of the MSM, hiding the racism against caucasians. I’d bet all my cash in my gun safe (about 1000 dollars) they would have spread that far and wide if he was a white conservative preaching hate against “minorities”.
I don’t want white supremacy, I just want fairness.
Actually no.
In his video list he specifically mentions white girls (as opposed to women and “as white as possible…like Norway”). His video title he made uses the terms pedophilia and white girls, I don’t think he even means older teens.
Someone else below listed a link to his videos someone saved.
You are welcome. From what you wrote in your #50 I’m glad I didn’t watch any myself. I don’t have the stomach for it right now.
You are right about how the media would have had a field day with this had the guy been white and latched onto white supremacy as his crazed obsession. It does appear to me mental illness is involved (see my #43). Isn’t there some old saying about poets and madmen being especially tuned into the Zeitgeist? Right now, the Zetgeist is full of “racism!!!” thanks to the dems and media.
As you can see on that older thread to which I posted the link, the US media was mum about his racist rantings — you had to find it out from the UK press. Sad, but typical.
I’m with you. No interest at all in white supremacy but lots in fairness. Fairness would go a long way toward healing our nation (and not just the racial issues), but it does not look like we’re going to get it anytime soon. Stiil, we must pray for it and push for it.
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