This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
In a situation in California, a teacher at Cal State Channel Island has been indicted for assaulting U.S. Border Patrol agents with a deadly or dangerous weapon – a tear gas canister.
And a constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley, points out it appears to be just the latest scenario in which professors have gone ballistic, and beyond what the law allows.
The Los Angeles Times reported the federal grand jury returned an indictment of Jonathan Caravello, 37, of Ventura, on a felony count of assault "after he was arrested at a protest against an immigration raid at a Ventura County marijuana farm."
The raids are part of President Donald Trump's agenda to secure America's borders and crack down on illegal aliens who entered, by the millions, under the tenure of Joe Biden.
In fact, there even were gang members and terrorists allowed into the U.S. under Biden's practices.
"Prosecutors say that agents deployed the tear gas as a crowd control measure during the July 10 protest and that Caravello picked up a canister and lobbed it back at officers. If convicted as charged, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison," the report explained.
The fight developed as protesters confronted federal agents enforcing the law at Glass House Farms' marijuana grow site in Camarillo.
The immigration enforcement action resulted in the arrests of more than 300 illegal alien workers.
The Department of Homeland Security said one worker died after falling from a greenhouse roof while trying to escape from federal agents.
Protesters by the hundreds gathered at the site, and allegedly impeded federal law enforcement, also throwing rocks at government vehicles.
Prosecutors said the tear gas was used, "For agents' safety."
Caravello allegedly chased a tear gas canister that rolled past him and threw it back at Border Patrol agents.
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley pointed out that authorities during their operation found at least 14 child workers there.
And he noted Caravello was defended by faculty at his school.
"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,'" Turley wrote.
"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,'" he noted.
"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."
And, Turley noted, "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.'"
He noted Hunter College didn't consider the violence sufficient reason to fire her, and only did so later when she chased reporters with a machete.
