Posted on 06/19/2024 7:50:44 AM PDT by Twotone
A suspect arrested in relation to arson attacks at University of California, Berkeley is a 34-year-old PhD student who lived in his parents' million-dollar home and called the U.S. a "fascist hellhole."
California and federal law enforcement say that 34-year-old Casey Goonan was arrested on Monday for allegedly committing four acts of arson at Berkeley during pro-Palestinian anti-Israel protests on campus.
His attorney confirmed that officials had raided Goonan's parents' home in Pleasant Hill on Monday at about 10 a.m.
A CalFire news release said that Goonan had been booked into the Alameda County jail on suspicion of arson and possession and use of destructive devices and held on a $1 million bail.
The San Francisco Standard reported that Goonan had received a doctorate from Northwestern University in African-American studies and unearthed some far-left statements he had made in the past.
The suspect considered himself a "scholar-activist," according to a biography from an academic journal in 2018, and said that he aspired to be a professor. Goonan obtained the doctorate in 2022, according to an Instagram post from his mother, and had previously studied at UC Riverside, which is also in California.
He was later described as an “abolitionist currently living and working in Chicago" in a separate bio from 2019.
The Standard said that Goonan called the U.S. a “god-awful fascist hell hole” in online articles and said that social injustice was “concealed under the blinders of white supremacist American reason.”
Another article written by Goonan was entitled “Defining Social Reality in a Revolutionary Way" and praised the Black Panther Party for providing a "blueprint" for the "scientific, premeditated, and necessarily methodical artistry of social revolution.”
The arson attacks were committed between June 1 and June 16 at the university. One incident included the firebombing of a Berkeley campus police car. At the time, pro-Palestinian posts online had claimed credit for the attacks as a form of protest against U.S. support for Israel.
“This was done to further retaliate against the UCPD for attacking students at UCSC and UCLA,” read one post.
“EVERY SINGLE BUILDING ON THE UC BERKELEY CAMPUS DESERVES TO BE INCINERATED," read another post.
Goonan's attorney, Jeff Wozniak, accused law enforcement officials of targeting his client over his political beliefs.
“This is a political investigation,” wrote Wozniak. “It is an investigation focused on Mr. Goonan’s political beliefs in a free Palestine and against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. If charges are filed, Mr. Goonan’s legal team will aggressively fight the charges."
Israel has been committed to a military action in the Gaza Strip to root out Hamas terrorists over a horrendous attack on civilians on Oct. 7 that took the lives of 1,139 people. Another 250 people were taken hostage, including some U.S. citizens.
His $50 fine and weekend of community service at the DNC will show him.
He can go live in another multi-million dollar home and get three hots and a cot for the next 25 years.
34 year old without a job and living with his parents. Figures.
“called the U.S. a “fascist hellhole”
It is as long as him and his ilk are in it.
University of California, Berkeley is a 34-year-old PhD student.
I think I see the problem...............
Spoiled rotten brat!
Just string the commie bastard up....and all his “comrades” with him.
Buy as much rope as necessary.
A million dollar home in the Bay Area is a shack with an outhouse.
I’ve got a 67 y/o only child lib that’s lived across the street from me for over 20 years and never had a job.
Momma bought him the house, now she’s passed away and he owns both.
I struggle with having any respect for a person that is a parasite leeching off a parent for their entire life.
Note the 10 AM raid time. 2 AM raids (where the agents murder the suspects) are saved for Republicans.
The loser is trying to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. The left has so many nutcases ...too many to count.
White kid with a PHD in African American Studies. I bet that raised some hackles since there is no way in hell he could be “down with the struggle”.
“A million dollar home in the Bay Area is a shack with an outhouse.”
Yep thats not much of an exaggeration if any.
In the 90s we had an influx of civilians to our base from the Alameda area due to a base closure......getting to know some of them a few showed me pics of their homes in cali, not impressive to say the least.....but when selling their houses real estate is so stupid expensive there, coming here some of them were actually able to buy homes in country clubs. SMH
Do you suppose he might get a sternly worded letter too?
...and called the U.S. a “fascist hellhole.”
With the prog-leftists in charge, he’s got a point...
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