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DA charges Oakland man with 3 felonies after attack on conservative activist at UC Berkeley
ktvu.com/news ^ | 3/6/19 | Jeff Shuttleworth

Posted on 03/06/2019 12:17:33 PM PST by a little elbow grease

BERKELEY, Calif. - The Alameda County District Attorney's Office has filed three felony charges against an Oakland man who allegedly attacked a conservative activist at University of California at Berkeley's Sproul Plaza last month.

Zachary Greenberg, 28, is charged with assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, battery with serious bodily injury and criminal threats for his alleged attack on Hayden Williams, an organizer with the conservative group Turning Point USA, while Williams was manning a table at Sproul Plaza on Feb. 19.

Greenberg, who was arrested Friday but is now free on bail, also is charged with misdemeanor vandalism causing less than $400 in damage. He's scheduled to be arraigned at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

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UC Berkeley also said allegations that it doesn't support free speech for all of its students, regardless of their perspectives, are "absurd" and "have no basis in fact."

The university said that in the last year alone it has spent more than $4 million "to ensure that our conservative students could safely and successfully hold events on campus and invite speakers of their choice to these events."

UC Berkeley said, "Our commitment to freedom of speech and belief is unwavering and no amount of incomplete, distorted news coverage is going to change that."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: again; berkeley; california; education; freedom; freespeech; oakland; theleft; violence
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"UC Berkeley said, "Our commitment to freedom of speech and belief is unwavering and no amount of incomplete, distorted news coverage is going to change that.""

Barf Alert

1 posted on 03/06/2019 12:17:33 PM PST by a little elbow grease
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To: Liz; LucyT; bitt; GregNH

FYI


2 posted on 03/06/2019 12:19:51 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: a little elbow grease

How soon will the charges be reduced to one count of miss-DUH-meaner disorderly conduct? Is there a miss-DUH-meaner DO charge in cali?


3 posted on 03/06/2019 12:20:05 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: a little elbow grease
UC Berkeley also said allegations that it doesn't support free speech for all of its students, regardless of their perspectives, are "absurd" and "have no basis in fact."

That assertion by Berkeley is absurd on its face...................

4 posted on 03/06/2019 12:21:37 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: a little elbow grease

Wake me when he’s convicted and actually serves any time.


5 posted on 03/06/2019 12:21:58 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: rktman
The university is probably pissed at Greenburg for not hiding his ugly face when committing the assault.

Berkeley is bummed.

6 posted on 03/06/2019 12:24:44 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease
Knowing that they just might lose some government funding via Trump's latest then that would explain the rush to explain themselves.

We are really in a sorry state when withholding money is more of a deterrent to bad behavior than moral integrity.

7 posted on 03/06/2019 12:24:56 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: a little elbow grease

Does anyone know why the puncher was on campus?


8 posted on 03/06/2019 12:25:30 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Red Badger
UC Berkeley also said allegations that it doesn't support free speech for all of its students, regardless of their perspectives, are "absurd" and "have no basis in fact."

That assertion by Berkeley is absurd on its face...................

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.... agreed.

9 posted on 03/06/2019 12:25:47 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: rktman; ChildOfThe60s

I’m actually willing to put a 20 spot down that he does time.

Too many eyes on this and too vicious of an attack.

If the news hadn’t spread, then yeah he gets a 100 dollar fine.

I could be wrong.

We shall see.

I don’t trust you guys to pay anyway and you definitely shouldn’t trust me! :)


10 posted on 03/06/2019 12:25:58 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Slyfox
"We are really in a sorry state when withholding money is more of a deterrent to bad behavior than moral integrity."

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.... so true.

Moral integrity has been disappearing at a geometric rate since the late 60's......... and the Hildabeast brought Saul Alinsky into our political lives just to add to the charm.

11 posted on 03/06/2019 12:28:50 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
Does anyone know why the puncher was on campus?

That's been my question ever since I found out that he wasn't a Berkeley student. Almost has to be Antifa related.

12 posted on 03/06/2019 12:31:50 PM PST by Company Man (SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED)
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To: dp0622
Well, New Yorkers. 😹 My kin settled around Athens/Hudson area back around 1630-40. Spinning in their graves now.
13 posted on 03/06/2019 12:32:18 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: a little elbow grease

Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.


14 posted on 03/06/2019 12:33:04 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: dp0622
I'm with you - such an easy pawn sacrifice to make. A Calif jury conviction - in Berkeley mind you - will provide untold benefits to proglibs.

For one, such a conviction could be touted as proof that leftists are assiduous supporters of the law. You think Cal would like some of that? The communist universities stand to lose $billions in funding. Sure as hell they're going to throw some losers to the wolves for the crime of "being caught".

15 posted on 03/06/2019 12:34:38 PM PST by semantic
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To: a little elbow grease

A jury of HIS peers will all be antifa & communists.

He will walk.


16 posted on 03/06/2019 12:35:04 PM PST by sevlex
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To: stinkerpot65; All
"Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug."

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I'm not crazy about the "legal" designation "hate crime". But do you think this qualifies as a hate crime?

17 posted on 03/06/2019 12:35:16 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: rktman

1630??????

God knows WTH my Italian/Sicilian ancestors were doing back then.

But judging by how I turned out, something bad :)

I CANT BELIEVE how far back some folks here go.

Makes me feel like we just got here!!


18 posted on 03/06/2019 12:36:26 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I don’t.


19 posted on 03/06/2019 12:36:51 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: dp0622
Getting twelve jurors to convict him in this area will be difficult.
20 posted on 03/06/2019 12:36:57 PM PST by caltaxed (ake)
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