Great news - first attacker of UCLA students arrested, felony assault w/deadly weapon [View all]

[TomDaisy]

Edan On, seen attacking a pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA, was arrested today by UCLA PD & booked on a felony--suspicion of assault w/a deadly weapon, per UCLA PD & jail records, held on $30,000 bail. This follows our
@CNN
investigation naming him: https://cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs/index.html

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs/index.html

Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment

Published 11:06 AM EDT, Thu May 16, 2024

CNN
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Law enforcement stood by for hours as counterprotesters attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on April 30, which erupted into the worst violence stemming from the ongoing college protests around the country over Israel’s war in Gaza.

While a criminal investigation is underway into the assaults that occurred at UCLA, the identities of the most aggressive counterprotesters have gone largely unknown. A CNN review of footage, social media posts, and interviews found that some of the most dramatic attacks caught on camera that night were committed by people outside UCLA – not the university students and faculty who were eventually arrested.

Many at the scene appeared dedicated to the pro-Israel cause, according to social media and their own words that night. The violent counterprotesters identified by CNN, which included an aspiring screenwriter and film producer and a local high school student – were joined by unlikely allies, several of whom are known throughout southern California for frequenting and disrupting a variety of protests and public gatherings.

The young man sporting the white mask and a white hoodie in widely shared video clips is Edan On, a local 18-year-old high school senior, his mother confirmed to CNN, though she later said he denies being at UCLA. Video shows On joining the counterprotesters while waving a long white pole. At one point, he strikes a pro-Palestinian protester with the pole, and appears to continue to strike him even when he was down, as fellow counterprotesters piled on.

Lock this asshole up. Enjoy prison! Amazing no students were killed, after the attackers aimed and launched fireworks directly into their faces. High school kid? Lock up the parents too. No doubt they encouraged his violent views and actions.

Next, lock up the billionaires who called the university presidents and ordered them to get cop goons in riot gear to beat down their own students and shoot them with rubber bullets. Again, amazing no students were killed, although many were very seriously injured and the entire campus has been traumatized.

EMAIL TO PARENTS THAT WENT OUT MOMENTS AGO:

Dear Bruin Community:

I am writing with an update on efforts to protect the safety and well-being of our community, as well as our ability to foster an environment in which students, faculty and staff can learn, live and work peacefully.

Yesterday morning UCPD detectives, with the assistance of local agencies, made their first arrest in the ongoing investigation into the April 30 assaults that occurred on our campus. UCPD is committed to investigating all reported acts of violence and is actively working to identify the other perpetrators of violence associated with protest activities. As Chancellor Block has shared, those who inflicted violence on our community will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

Enraged parents, including myself, have been demanding immediate arrests. We will not tolerate foot-dragging. This was an organized, large-scale, weaponized, violent attack on peaceful students, many of them 18 year old girls.