Harvard Law professor placed on leave after firing pellet gun near Boston area synagogue

NY Post ^ | 4 October 2025 | Ariel Zilber

[Rummyfan]

A visiting professor at Harvard Law School has been placed on administrative leave after allegedly firing a pellet rifle outside a Brookline synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur.

Carlos Portugal Gouvea, 43, was arrested Wednesday night after police said he fired two shots near Temple Beth Zion on Beacon Street in what he later claimed was “hunting rats,” Brookline.News reported.

Investigators do not believe that Gouvea was targeting the synagogue, but he was charged in Brookline District Court with illegally discharging a pellet gun, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and malicious damage of personal property, according to court records.

Harvard Law School spokesperson Jeff Neal told The Post that Gouvea “has been placed on administrative leave as the school seeks to learn more about this matter.”

[Rummyfan]

I'm going to go hunting vermin... in front of the synagogue... on Yom Kippur. Sure....

[Bernard]

Does administrative leave come with a paycheck or other benefits like housing?

[HYPOCRACY]

"Investigators do not believe that Gouvea was targeting the synagogue"

[Freeleesy]

Is he a “free fakestine” fascist? (FFF)?

[9YearLurker]

I’m surprised more wacko profs don’t go over the bend.

[TheDon]

“Officers later discovered a shattered car window and a pellet lodged inside the vehicle, according to the police report cited by Brookline News.”

[FlingWingFlyer]

Stupid retard doesn’t know much about the law yet.

[SaveFerris]

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DO NO HARM, Americans
Be situationally-aware
(For the thread)

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[TheDon]

"Gouvea, a Harvard Law School alumnus, earned his doctorate from the university in 2008. He also serves as an associate professor at the University of São Paulo Law School and heads a Brazilian think tank focused on social and environmental justice."

Talk about a red flag.

[SaveFerris]

I think 🤔🤔🤔 he’s now getting
some higher education...

[Leaning Right]

I never went to Harvard. Do all their professors spend their spare time hunting mice, rats, and such?

It seems to me that being near a synagogue is what’s important here. But again, I never went to Harvard. Or any other Ivy League school for that matter. So what do I know?

🤔

[PGalt]

Carlos the Rat is a visiting professor at Harvard.

[rlmorel]

Been done before, hunting "rats" near synagogues...

(If anyone doesn't get the reference, this is from "Maus"...)

[Salman]

Harvard is a terrorist madrassa.

[princeofdarkness]

Did this guy take lessons from Elmer Fudd?

“Shhh. Be berry quiet. I’m hunting Jewrats.”

[shelterguy]

“”social and environmental justice”””

He’s nuts, Jim.

[shelterguy]

“”social and environmental justice”””

He’s nuts, Jim.

[allendale]

Crazies and lunatics nest at American universities.

[redfreedom]

“Hunting rats”

The definition of rats often refers to creatures other than rodents.

“Officers later discovered a shattered car window and a pellet lodged inside the vehicle,”

I seriously doubt it if the rodent version of a rat would be found in a vehicle. A pellet gun with enough energy to shatter a window can kill or seriously harm a person.

This leftist needs some serious prison time.