Conservative Activist To Press Charges Against Suspect In UC Berkeley Assault (Zachary Greenberg)

Breitbart ^ | 3-6-2019 | Joshua Caplan

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Conservative activist Hayden Williams confirmed he will press charges against Zachary Greenberg, the man arrested for allegedly punching him in the face at UC Berkeley, in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday evening.

A partial transcript is as follows:

SEAN HANNITY: At CPAC, the president announced his plans to issue an Executive Order to ensure that America’s left-wing universities actually enforce freedom of speech or they don’t get money. On stage with the president was Hayden Williams. He was viciously, as you know, attacked while recruiting students for a conservative organization at UC Berkeley. Thankfully, the UC Berkeley police announced Friday that they have made an arrest. The suspect, 28-year-old Zachary Greenberg. […] Hayden, number one, glad you’re here. Pretty cool getting called up by the president, right? it was kind of worth a punch.

HAYDEN WILLIAMS: Yeah, I guess. It was kind of exhilarating, you know, being recognized and brought up on the stage at CPAC. But you know, there are so many conservatives students across the country who put up with similar forms of discrimination and harassment, and even violence that, you know, don’t get recognized, and we’ve covered it extensively.

HANNITY: Well, and it’s interesting. You were trying to tape him. You had a phone in one hand and he’s just standing there, and then, you know, when you least expect it, it’s a cheap shot. But, it’s also violence. It’s an assault.

WILLIAMS: Right. Yeah.

HANNITY: Do you plan on pursuing this to the fullest extent of the law?

WILLIAMS: Of course.

HANNITY: And pressing charges?

WILLIAMS: That’s really the only way we can hold these people accountable...

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Williams ought to file a civil suit against Greenberg and UCB.

[pepsionice]

I can’t see UCB being at fault on this episode (where they cancelled speakers, yes, they are at fault). But for this Greenberg character....he ought be spending 90 days in a jail, and be forced into taking anger-management classes. I don’t think this will be the last time that he gets into trouble though.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Do you really think a judge wants to jail this perp and have us feed him when the jails are overcrowded? A ‘just don’t do it again’ warning is in order.

[Lurker]

“he ought be spending 90 days in a jail, and be forced into taking anger-management classes.”

He ought to be sued in Federal court under the Civil Rights laws. He should also be prosecuted under the Federal criminal codes.

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[ladyjane]

I can’t see UCB being at fault on this episode

Really? Berkeley has a reputation for letting stuff like this happen. Their police claimed for days that they couldn't identify Greenberg.

[romanesq]

Is it true this Greenberg guy’s father is an employee of the school? Hard to believe the police had no idea who he was.

[pepsionice]

They couldn’t ID Greenberg....because he wasn’t a student at the campus. Why he was on the campus...has not yet been answered yet either.

[gaijin]

For me the biggest aspect of this case is the one not being talked about much:

The UC Berkeley PD came out hard and early that Greenberg was NOT as student at UC Berekley.

That was a lie.

Sure, his status was as a concurrent enrollment student, but he still paid fees, he still showed up to class every day, he was recognized by his professors, he had an email account, he had a UC Berkeley card.

The public needs closure, and for me that would mean the Chief losing her job, at the very least.

The PD lied to the public regarding a matter of VIOLENCE, and violence prevention is the #1 priority of any Police Department.

She needs to be FIRED.

[gaijin]

see post 8, above. The police chief LIED.

[LouAvul]

He ought to be sued in Federal court

If we're talking about "ought", I'm thinking of the scene in "Matrix" where the jack booted thugs are tuning up Lawrence Fishburne with their night sticks. That's pretty good.

Even better is the closing scene of "Casino" where gangsters are tuning up Joe Pesci with baseball bats.

Either of those is what he "ought" to get.

[gaijin]

The PD involved was UC Berkeley police, which is different from the city police, Berkeley Police.

Yet this case shadows the Based Stickman case from 2 years ago.

There was a big Patriot Prayer rally at the public park near the city Library, across the street from the YMCA:

The cops said no sticks, signs or weapons in the park. In compliance the patriots turned theres in, and a yuge pile resulted; everyone in the park was disarmed, ringed by a yuge encircling ring of AntiFa; easily over 1,500 people.

THEN a yuge riot ensued.

Well, the people visibly waiting right outside the park looking in were armed, in very man cases; pepper spray, tasers, knives, etc.

If you wanted to leave? You had to pass through that gauntlet.

Soon it didn’t matter; the riot was in full swing.

This pattern was exactly like Charlottesville, where the cops disarmed one side, not the other.

This was also similar to the San Jose Trump rally, right before his election. The San Jose cops funneled rally goers returning to their cars through a long, circuitious route lined with armed AntiFa; people were chased, beaten, their cars were attacked, etc.

Through all that the PD reaction was very much laissez-faire, though it very much seemed like the PD permitted for a well-prepped ambush route to form up, then funneling compliant citizens through it, serving them up to their SF Bay Area political allies.

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That would then explain the ‘why’ on his appearance on the campus. If the campus police chief put up the fake story, then their resignation would have to come (sooner or later).

I think a lot of this threat business on campuses would come to an end quickly, if you dumped the ‘fake’ college cops, and just went to state police, real prosecutors and judges, and the threat of actual jail-time for criminal behavior.

[LeonardFMason]

“I’ve developed MIGRAINES.”
“I have trouble seeing things clearly.”
“I have severe pains in my neck.”

OH YES. I would pursue this both CRIMINALLY and CIVILLY. Time to make an example out of these thugs.

Make him wish he was never born.

[gaijin]

UC Berkeley Chief of Police, Margo Bennett

Here is the wiggle room Chief Bennett was relying on for her lie: Greenbery was a UCB Concurrent Enrollment student.

It means he was paying for and attending courses, but those courses were not formally a part of a DEGREE program.

The courses probably focused on medical science and permitted Greenberg to better understand the underlying aspects of the work for which he was doing computer-mediated analysis of digital imaging:

A lot of times doctors are taking pictures of tissue or cells, and those are treated with phosphorescent dyes, then the tissue/cells are bombarded with laser energy. If the cell or tissue is regenerating or getting turned on for some reason, they will light up. So pictures will tell the doctors about whether an agent of medication is working, or not working, or whatever.

So...Greenberg's status was indeed a little different from 95% of the students there; that part was true.

So he was just STROLLING AROUND UC Berkeley, that day..?

EH, NO.

The Chief of Police is lying aabout politically-motived violence on the campus of UC Berkeley.

[circlecity]

Sorry but if you are attending classes there you are a student. This way just dishonest use of semantics.

[PCPOET7]

my bet is that the faculty within the department his father works in knew who he was. universities are insular communities. if this guys dad has worked for an extended time as a teacher or even a janitor a certain segment of employees would of known who he was from day one.

[ladyjane]

College police departments know who the area troublemakers/lawbreakers are even if they don’t attend that school. I’m sure they know all the Oakland troublemakers are.

I thought I read that the Berkely police didn’t even make the ID. It was somebody on the internet.

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"Really? Berkeley has a reputation for letting stuff like this happen. Their police claimed for days that they couldn't identify Greenberg. "

There's a clear history of anti-conservative violence that the university has let fester for years.(Dig deep enough and you'll (probably) find university officials who support and promoted it)

A good lawyer could cause considerable pain for the university and Greenberg, IMO.
(It's time we support the people who fight back)

[bantam]

He ought to file a lawsuit, civil or otherwise against every and anyone, who prevented justice from occurring here!