Police investigate an altercation with a queer ASU educator as possible aggravated assault by an operative of the right-wing group.
  • sugarfree@lemmy.worldEnglish
    492·
    9 months ago

    Not a great situation, but he doesn’t have the right to lunge for the cameraman as he did. He was dealt with using minimal and reasonable force and was not further attacked after the threat was over. I wouldn’t want charges for anyone over such a minor incident, but if anyone is charged it should be the attacker.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      491·
      9 months ago

      Sorry, but I believe you are entirely wrong. Even the police are investigating it as aggravated assault by the right wing idiots. If the professor felt threatened (especially due to being harassed), he was within his rights to defend himself, even if that meant he made the first move.

      He was outnumbered two to one, and they were stalking and verbally harassing him with the intent to incite a reaction. Additionally, that kind of speech is not protected. If anyone should get charges, it’s the two abusers.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      But after Inside Higher Ed interviewed Kolvet, Arizona State released what Adam Wolfe, the police spokesman, said was security footage taken from atop a parking garage on the main Tempe, Ariz., campus. The video shows Boyles reaching for the camera, seemingly trying to grab it or otherwise stop the recording—but the Turning Point interviewer, in all black with a backward baseball cap, almost immediately pushes Boyles face-first onto the concrete.