A federal grand jury has indicted Cal State University Channel Islands professor Jonathan Anthony Caravello for throwing a tear gas canister at federal agents during a raid at a Glass House Farms marijuana facility in Camarillo, CA. In addition to a large number of arrestees, the authorities found at least 14 child workers. Caravello has been defended by faculty at the university, but now faces charges under 18 U.S.C. 111 for “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees.”
The night before he was arrested, Caravello spoke at a City of Camarillo council meeting and declared that he was “patrolling the city streets following armed masked thugs trying to kidnap my [undocumented] neighbors.”
During the raid, Caravello, a philosophy and math lecturer, was detained and arrested after he threw the device at agents. Body camera footage captured Caravello first attempting to kick a canister and then picking it up and throwing it overhand toward agents.
Faculty at the university supported Caravello, and the California Faculty Association (CFA) claimed Professor Caravello was “kidnapped” in a reel on Instagram: “Four masked agents dragged Jonathan away into an unmarked car without identifying themselves, without giving the reason for arrest, and without disclosing where they are taking him.”
This is not the first time that faculty have rallied around faculty who have allegedly taken violent action during protests.
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display. Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and received overwhelming support from the students and faculty. She was later honored as a model for women advocates.
At Hunter College in New York, Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was shown trashing a pro-life display of students.
She was captured on a videotape telling the students that “you’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
Unlike the professor, the students remained calm and respectful. One even said “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering for her students.
Rodríguez continued to rave, stating, “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f–king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.” In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table.
Hunter College, however, did not consider this unhinged attack to be sufficient to terminate Rodríguez.
It was only after she later chased reporters with a machete that the college fired Rodríguez. Another college then hired her.
Caravello is facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
in some states saying illegal immigrant can get you dinged on your law license. i guess that’s why turley wrote this:
“patrolling the city streets following armed masked thugs trying to kidnap my [undocumented] neighbors.””
lawyers should have free speech too just the same as other citizens, these “ethical” rulings limiting lawyers are bogus
Sal Sar
He never met a barber he could trust… and as a barber, I missed my chance!
You know how Mama always told you that you can’t judge a book by the cover? She was wrong, 99% of the time you can and the other 1% is statically insignificant..
I think you left something out Professor Turley. Fourteen stoned child workers were found at the farm. The reason that the man threw the smoking canister back at police was because he was upset when he inhaled thinking the smoke would make him high not cry. Don’t bogart that canister my friend.
This what people rack up student loan debt to pay to teach them, I mean brainwash them.
Militant Lemmings, a tool of the insidious.
On the other hand though it must give a person a feeling of grandeur to have a cadre of lemmings at one’s command. Just puff their self-righteousness and toss them a few table scraps and ego strokings. They will obediently make arses of themselves in the public arena and subsequently get arrested or indicted for your own political proxy battles. Or a perhaps as five or so minutes of entertainment watching them get busted while you bask in the background raking in the money or political capital at the lemmings’ expense and suffering. But they are expendable anyway because once they have outlived their utility there are always more fresh lemmings out there, begging for their 15 minutes of infamy, ready to be used and discarded once more.
Yes, one would have to be quite machivellian or cynical to have such a joyous philosophy on Lemming exploitation with a minor in schadenfreude. It’s one thing to become so detached that we can dehumanize the lemming but it is that we CAN do so if we want to….. that is what brings out the true crass of being one who handles lemmings with such wilful and wanton disregard: or at least for fun or profit.
Lemmings demand to be used and abused, its the order of things. Might as well get a laugh or two out of them.
Lesson learned: Do not be a lemming, it attracts the worst in people who will take advantage of you. ……. or do so and get sucked in to be a tool for the handiwork of devils. Because nobody respects lemmings anyway. No big loss if they get arrested and fired. Always better to be the lemming handler or controller who goes to $5,000 a plate dinner galas paid for by PACs or better yet, the lemmings themselves, where you can hob knob with other lemming handlers and political sophistos all decked out to impress each other in all their vainglory in trying to move up the pecking order-one rung, and one gala, at a time. Just remember, Lemmings themselves will never be invited or welcomed at such elite affairs, so its best to accept one’s station in life and be content with the bottom where you belong. Being Professor Lemming is still a Lemming and only a Lemming.
In this man’s case: for throwing a tear gas canister, lasting a few seconds, he gets put into the federal criminal justice system and subjected to countless hours of hardship and expense for years into the future. All that to win a cupie doll’s worth of points among the Lemming Caste.
Well enough of that. I think I’ll crack open a can of pop and watch TV a while.
Darren
Great comment and so true
What cr*p.
He had a Camarillo brillo flaming out from in his head, I mean a Mendicino beano by where some bugs had made it red! He had a dwarf for a pet and an amulet, he had grey green skin, a doll with a pin. I told him he was all right but I couldn’t come in…
Oh Frank where are you now…. Californicated!
Reety, Alrighty he’s the Zombie Woof.