Eric Clanton – the 28 year old California philosophy professor unmasked by 4chan and subsequently arrested and charged with four felonies for assaulting Trump supporters with a bike lock – is facing serious jail time.
First, let’s check out the police report
Clanton is accused of hitting at least seven victims including Sean Stiles over the head with a ‘U-shaped’ bike lock. Stiles required 5 staples.
Clanton’s apartment was searched and a cache of Antifa paraphernalia was removed (shocker).
Clanton has a prior arrest for demonstrating with BLM in 2014
And I doubt his Antifa tattoo will help in prison
Now let’s look at part of the criminal complaint filed Friday (download entire .pdf here)
Full list of charges
Full list of charges for Antifa bike lock professor Eric Clanton pic.twitter.com/kKboWb1lvm
— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) May 26, 2017
Adding it up
While I’m not a lawyer, it’s clear Clanton is alleged to have committed crimes which carry enhanced sentences: Three of the four felony charges allege a ‘serious felony,‘ while the attack on Sean Stiles is being considered a ‘serious felony and a violent felony.‘
Let’s take a look at California sentencing guidelines for assault with a deadly weapon that is not a firearm:
4 felony charges = up to 16 years
But wait – there are enhancements!
Three of Clanton’s charges are “serious” and one is “violent and serious.” So tack on 5 years for each of the three serious felonies, and 15 years for the serious and violent felony.
So, if Eric Clanton is found guilty and the judge throws the book at him, he’s looking at up to 46 years and $40,000 in fines. Tack on 6 more months for allegedly committing the crime(s) while wearing a mask.
Does anyone think he’ll serve anywhere near that?
In Berkeley? Against Trump supporters? I’m not holding my breath. For starters, the judge could order that Clanton serve all four felonies concurrently and/or simply hand out an otherwise light sentence.
Clanton allegedly attacking someone at the Milo UC Berkeley protest.
protestor at #MiloYiannopoulos UC Berkeley protest tonight hit in head with bike lock @berkeleyside @ktvu @kron4news @abc7newsbayarea pic.twitter.com/iyGxCLYN0B
— Daniel McPartlan (@dancalbear) February 2, 2017
And a picture which appears to be Clanton from that event.
Let this be a lesson to Antifa – dressing up like ISIS and plotting cowardly attacks like Eric Clanton…
I’m just happy we got him off the street before he starts slitting throats on a train.
don’t worry, the people’s republic of california will give this valiant citizen probation.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56808
Not sure who he supports for president has to do with anything. Same shit liberals do, “oh it’s not one of ours”…. We have bad/good Trump supporters. Bad/Good Bernie supporters….. what we don’t have is anyone willing to step outside of whatever narrative they sell.
I have not changed my mind regarding how this saga will end from a previous post on this topic:
https://tinyurl.com/ydar8bce
Suspended sentence for sure…
WTF? Life in prison for a street gang fight?!
Both sides are full of pansy push overs. If you go to a fight, be prepared to fight. No one died and a few people get some scares. waaaa… where’s my mommy
Street fight? He was carrying a gun. The other assaults were of the attempted murder varietal.
committed serious felonies, but with a name that rhymes with Clinton and crimes against Trump backers…he’ll be on the streets again soon.
if he had been a “based stick man” you’d be high giving him. Or I guess if he slit a few throats on a train you’d be silent.
I think he was just knocking some sense into block-headed Trump supporters…kind of a public service. Anyone know what brand lock it was? Might get one for my bike.
@traderconfessions Only Trump supporters were free speech supporters? That’s quite a compliment.
I’ll give you a padlock. You wanna try the lock trick on me? Please tell me what to say to you to make that happen. I’m begging you!
Another internet tough guy. The code word is Master Lock.. But I’m bringing Frog as my second. Meet you at the corner in 5 minutes. How old are you? Hilarious.
Lisa “We’re all anarchists” profits from chaos.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/top-occupy-organizer-trained-ferguson-protesters/
Exactly, traderconfessions, you’re not hitting anybody.
If the judge gives him even one day in prison the far right like the skinheads, etc will take care of him just fine. But odds are the judge knows that so he won’t get prison time but street justice will take care of him. Just watch. He’s got to have eyes in the back of his head for the rest of his short life.
College enrollment is dropping precisely because these are the type of people that teach there. Where can a decent family send a child to avoid the radical left indoctrination? Change is coming and they aren’t gonna like it – this liberal agenda will die a natural capitalist death. Hollywood movie receipts are way down because of it. Target stock dropped 40% because of it. Antifa is actually helping the tide turn back to sanity by displaying the hateful heart of the left.
All he had to do was not hit people with a lock at a lawful event and avoid taking part in a riot.
Killed by inmates shortly after arriving.
Had he attacked those people in my presence, I would have stopped his rampage with as many .45 HSTs as it took. Frankly, though, I like the notion of him spending at least a couple of decades protesting while being bent over a bunk! 🙁
He’ll be the bitch of Cellblock C in no time!
Couldn’t happen to a more despicable guy.
Not a matter of time before the other side fights back. You are going to see thousands of these ANTIFA pussies lying dead in their own blood from only a handful of Patriots carrying AK47s. Praying it does not happen, but with snowflake ANTIFA pussies like this around, it is time we start eliminating them.
He may not get off. A lot depends on the timing of the trial and the Democrat’s perceptions of how the rest of the country is viewing their relationship with the Antifa radicals. Pelosi’s recent slam against Antifa can be taken as a clue in that regard. 2018 is coming quickly and in order to get the support they lost to Trump back, they are going to have to start mending fences with white working class voters somehow. Antifa and BLM do not play well in Pretoria.
Same people against Canton said nothing against Robert Dear, Dylann Roof, Tim McVeigh, Jard Loughner, LaVoy Finicum, Eric Rudolph, Michael Page, Scott Roeder etc.
to be honest I do not like many of you right wingers. I think your values are skewed and you are often too unintelligent or open minded to have any interesting discussion or debate, but with that said, these Black bloc fuckers all need to be tracked down and arrested. I will never take a pro fascist stance like many of you, but conflating black bloc with all progressives is just foolish.
Obama would have pardoned him and then invited him to the White House to present him with the Medal of Freedom for bravery