A person was arrested Monday in reference to the firebombing of a UC Berkeley Police Division car and three different arson assaults on the peak of pro-Palestinian protests on the Berkeley campus, authorities introduced.
Casey Robert Goonan, 34, was booked into Alameda County jail on suspicionof arson and possession and use of damaging units, based on a Cal Fireplace information launch. He’s being held on $1 million bail.
The assaults occurred in June however Cal Fireplace didn’t embrace additional particulars, together with whether or not anybody was injured within the assaults. The incident had been investigated by Cal Fireplace’s Workplace of the State Fireplace Marshal Arson and Bomb Unit, the UC Berkeley Police Division, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI.
Professional-Palestinian supporters who had been protesting on the Berkeley campus have claimed accountability for the firebombing. In a put up final week on Indybay.org, a bunch known as Pupil Intifada wrote: “UCLA students were attacked last night, so we retaliated with a firebomb on UCB campus.”
“NOT SURE WHAT BUILDING IT EVEN WAS. HONESTLY DONT REALLY CARE,” based on the put up. “EVERY SINGLE BUILDING ON THE UC BERKELEY CAMPUS DESERVES TO BE INCINERATED FOLLOWING THE UC SYSTEM’S TREATMENT OF STUDENT PROTESTORS.”
A social media account known as Escalate Community additionally posted on X in help of Anderson:
“In the coming days, fundraiser information and other next steps will emerge from movement defense collectives in California. We should all be uplifting them and sharing them with our bases. We will defend those who fight! Free Palestine.”
