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Earlier this month, someone set a police SUV on fire at UC Berkeley.

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An anonymous statement taking credit was posted on a site called Abolition Media. It reads in part:

This act was done in retaliation against UCPD, for their attack on students yesterday on a different campus and to retaliate against the University of California for its support for the zionist israel settler colony. More specifically – this attempt to torch a police car in front of the university was in solidarity with our Palestinian siblings assaulted by the zionist state in Rafah. It came from a place of love for Palestine, and love for revolution and liberation of all oppressed people…

Blessed is the flame that burns down the settler-plantation.

Blessed are the rockets that will free thousands of prisoners held captive by the zionist settler entity and US colonizer police state.

May the spirit of Revolutionary Anti-colonialism unearth the truth from beneath these occupied lands.

Our heart will forever be tied to the fate of Rafah

Knife to the throat of zionism

Death to amerikkka

Glory to the martyrs

Last week, there was another arson attack at a building on campus. 

And once again, someone left a note taking credit, this time on a different site.

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. EVERY SINGLE BUILDING ON THE UC BERKELEY CAMPUS DESERVES TO BE INCINERATED FOLLOWING THE UC SYSTEM’S TREATMENT OF STUDENT PROTESTORS. LAST NIGHT THEY ATTACKED A YOUNG WOMAN STUDENT WHO WAS SPEAKING HER MIND ON A MEGAPHONE. SO WE UNLOADED A FIREBOMB ON THE SIDE OF A CAMPUS BUILDING. THE FLAME WAS BIG AND SPREAD ACROSS THE TREES AND BUSHES ON THE SIDE OF A BUILDING.

LONG LIVE THE STUDENT INTIFADA FOR PALESTINE LIBERATION

STOP THE GENOCIDE NOW

UC SYSTEM MUST DIVEST FROM ISRAEL OR FACE OUR WRATH OF REVENGE

BLESSED IS THE FLAME

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Over the weekend there was also a fire at a construction site on campus.

The claim of responsibility ties all of the arson attacks to the same person or group.

at one p.m. this a f t e r n o o n, we torched large portions of a construction site in the middle of u.c. berkeley campus. OPERATION CAMPS FLOOD on u.c.b. kkkampus has began with:

– successful looting of a u.c.b supply building of thousands of dollars,

– the fire bombing of a u.c.b cop car,

– the experimental burning of dry grass hills on the interior of campus

– the torching of a building on the perimeter of the campus

and now

– the arson of a construction site (mostly construction materials, wood pallets, and massive dry bush area…

glory to the martyrs

blessed is the flame

Last night, a suspect in all of these crimes was arrested.

On Monday evening, Cal Fire announced the arrest of 34-year-old Casey Robert Goonan “in connection with the firebombing attack of a UC Berkeley Police Department vehicle and three other arson attacks on UC Berkeley campus during the month of June.”

Goonan was arrested Monday “following a comprehensive investigation” by Cal Fire’s Office of the State Fire Marshal Arson and Bomb Unit, UC Berkeley police, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives…

Goonan is now facing multiple felony charges, authorities said, including “the possession and use of destructive devices and multiple counts of arson.”

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According to Andy Ngo, Casey Goonan was arrested last year for vandalism and resisting arrest. At the time he was described as a 33-year-old with a Ph.D in African Studies from Northwestern.

This is apparently video of that earlier arrest:

Also here he’s being held by two cops in the background:

Andy Ngo notes that some leftists are rallying support for Goonan, whether or not he is guilty.

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So far, this is the only local news report on the arrest.