{"id":196026,"date":"2023-11-17T04:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=196026"},"modified":"2023-11-17T04:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T04:40:05","slug":"california-professor-arrested-for-death-of-jewish-protester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/california-professor-arrested-for-death-of-jewish-protester\/","title":{"rendered":"California professor arrested for death of Jewish protester"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>California professor Loay Alnaji is arrested on involuntary manslaughter charge for death of Jewish protester Paul Kessler<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Loay Alnaji, 50, is being held on a $1million bond for death of Paul Kessler<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Witnesses say Kessler was struck with Alnaji&#8217;s megaphone then fell to ground<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Autopsy said he died as a result of hitting the concrete sidewalk\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The pair were on opposing sides of an Israel Palestine protest in Thousand Oaks\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>California police have arrested Loay Alnaji on an involuntary manslaughter charge for the death of Jewish protester Paul Kessler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kessler, 69, died after getting into an altercation with Alnaji at a protest in Thousand Oaks earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy revealed he&#8217;d been hit in the face and died after hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk. Witnesses said Alnaji attacked him, causing him to fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/15\/77886491-12758041-image-a-1_1700149888819.jpg\" height=\"888\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Loay Alnaji, 50, has been taken into custody on an involuntary manslaughter charge. He is shown at the protest where Kessler was fatally injured<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/15\/77886419-12758041-image-m-3_1700149936514.jpg\" height=\"621\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kessler, 69, died after getting into an altercation with Alnaji at a protest in Thousand Oaks earlier this month. An autopsy revealed he&#8217;d been hit in the face and died after hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk. Witnesses said Alnaji attacked him, causing him to fall<\/p>\n<p>Alnaji was taken into custody today by The Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is being held on a $1million bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police continue to appeal to anyone who captured their altercation on video.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, Alnjai was filmed telling a police officer he was trying to hit Kessler&#8217;s phone away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But witnesses including Kessler&#8217;s friend, Jonathan Oswaks, say he punched him with his megaphone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All of a sudden, I see a punch&#8230;the white megaphone flying through the air,&#8217; Oswaks, speaking at the scene of the protest last week, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oswaks implored the police to act sooner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alnaji stayed at the scene after Kessler was taken away in an ambulance. He later cooperated with police at his home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Videos taken after he fell show Palestine supporters continuing to chant against Israel, and some making antisemitic remarks about Hitler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DailyMail.com was the first to name Alnaji, who works as a computer science professor at Ventura County Community College.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/15\/77579529-12758041-A_female_Palestinian_supporter_appears_to_be_helping_Kessler_as_-a-20_1700150108252.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A female Palestinian supporter appears to be helping Kessler as he lay stricken on the pavement. He died the following day in hospital<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12758041\/California-professor-Loay-Alnjaji-arrested-involuntary-manslaughter-charge-death-Jewish-protester-Paul-Kessler.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California professor Loay Alnaji is arrested on involuntary manslaughter charge for death of Jewish protester&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":196025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>California professor arrested for death of Jewish protester - Tokens Talk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/california-professor-arrested-for-death-of-jewish-protester\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California professor arrested for death of Jewish protester - 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