California professor charged with killing protester at demonstration
A judge ruled Tuesday that a University of Southern California professor will stand trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter and assault of a Jewish counterprotester at an anti-Gaza protest.
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Ventura County Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright found after a two-day preliminary hearing that there is enough evidence to try Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. Alnaji, 51, is accused of hitting Paul Kessler with a megaphone during a November confrontation at an event that began as a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Thousand Oaks, a suburb northwest of Los Angeles. Kessler, 69, fell and hit his head on the pavement. The counterprotester died at a hospital the next day. The college instructor was charged with two felonies: involuntary manslaughter and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, the DA’s office said. If convicted of all charges, he could face more than four years in prison. Alnaji, who is free on $50,000 bail, is a computer science instructor at Moorpark College and had expressed pro-Palestinian views on social media, many of which were taken down in the days after Kessler’s death, the Los Angeles Times reported. See Also: Universidade de Amesterdão cancela aulas após violência em protestos (Portuguese version)
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