Peaceful Protest…
A Berkeley protester was clubbed in the head with a hammer after he attempted to stop looters during a protest in December.
My FOX LA reported:
Sunday’s protest began peacefully on the University of California, Berkeley campus. But as protesters marched through downtown Berkeley toward the neighboring city of Oakland, someone smashed the window of a Radio Shack. When a protester tried to stop the vandalism, he was hit with a hammer, Officer Jennifer Coats said.
Some of the protesters made their way to a freeway in Oakland and blocked traffic. The California Highway Patrol said some tried to light a patrol vehicle on fire and threw rocks, bottles and an explosive at officers. Highway patrol officers responded with tear gas.
Here’s the video:
They were chanting “Peaceful protests” when they jacked him with a hammer.
Looters are taking advantage of #Berkeley Peaceful protest. Protestor attempts to stop looters and hit with hammer pic.twitter.com/XGx5ZIjxpL
— Adrian Castro (@castromian) December 8, 2014
Police arrested the violent protester in August.
The Black Lives Matter protester was charged with two felonies this past week.
Berkeleyside reported:
A man has been charged with two felonies related to an attack with a hammer on a demonstrator taking part in a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Berkeley in December.
Berkeley police arrested Jayne Waller, 20, in late August on an unrelated offense after an officer recognized him from a previously circulated physical description that included a street name. Waller was released after that violation, but was re-arrested Monday in the 2100 block of Shattuck Avenue in connection with the hammer attack.
Waller was charged Tuesday by the Alameda County district attorney’s office on two counts relating to the attack — assault with a deadly weapon and battery with serious bodily injury — and one count of second-degree commercial burglary relating to a break-in and theft at the RadioShack store on Shattuck Avenue and Dwight Way.