CENTRAL CASTING WOULD HAVE REJECTED HIM AS BEING TOO OBVIOUS FOR THE ROLE: UC Berkeley firebomb suspect, 34, lives with parents, has PhD.
Casey Goonan was arrested Monday morning at his parents’ $1.1 million home in Pleasant Hill on suspicion of a string of arson attacks at UC Berkeley from June 1 to 16.
Feds, cops and CalFire allege the 34-year-old, a Northwestern University doctorate of African American studies, firebombed a Berkeley campus police car and carried out three other arson incidents on university grounds June 1, as well as last Thursday and Sunday.
Charges are yet to be filed by the Alameda District Attorney’s Office. His attorney, Jeff Wozniak, confirmed multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, raided the home where Goonan lives with his parents in Pleasant Hill at around 10 a.m. Monday morning. A bio from a 2018 academic journal states Goonan “considers himself a scholar-activist” and an aspiring professor. No social media profiles, including LinkedIn, could be found for Goonan.
“Casey got his PhD! Onto job apps,” Goonan’s mother wrote in a 2022 Instagram post. He previously completed his undergraduate degree at UC Riverside.
Another bio from 2019 described Goonan as an “abolitionist currently living and working in Chicago.”
In online articles, Goonan has described the United States as a “god-awful fascist hell hole” where social injustices are “concealed under the blinders of white supremacist American reason.”
If reason is white supremacy, what do we call white guys firebombing stuff to get their way?
But maybe his real crime was picking his targets poorly.
One of the weird things, and there are many weird things, about this bullshit is that he believed the best target for this was UC Berkeley.
As far short of his far leftist ideals as Cal may have been, few actual real world institutions are closer.https://t.co/M8hW8hfwYN
— Lee Edwards (@terronk) June 19, 2024
No enemies to the left!