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.
Berkeleyside caught the attack on video (see below). It happened around 8 p.m. Dec. 7, one of several nights that month when Berkeley and Oakland were consumed with largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests that included property damage and were at times violent.
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He was justified.
ReplyDeleteJustified to break a store window to loot or justified when he hit some old guy with the hammer?
ReplyDelete"Largely peaceful"?
ReplyDeleteIf a group has a permit to hold a "protest", and they allow it to get violent or devolve into looting and destruction, their permit to hold a "protest" at that location should be revoked. You want to "demonstrate" your ignorance, you can do it somewhere else.
The BLM nonsense is rather played out at this point, anyway.