Police have arrested the man they suspect punched a conservative activist on the University of California at Berkeley’s campus last month, the school said.
Campus authorities arrested Zachary Greenberg, who is not a UC Berkeley student, on Friday. Jail records show he’s accused of assault with "force likely to produce great bodily harm,” which the state’s criminal code classifies as assault with a deadly weapon.
Video of the Feb. 19 incident shows two men confronting activist Hayden Williams, who was recruiting students for a grass-roots conservative organization. The man police say is Greenberg then pushed Williams repeatedly and punched him in the face. Greenberg could not be reached for comment.
The news comes after a days long campaign by conservative activists both at Berkeley and nationally, who have argued, on social media, right-leaning political websites and Fox News, that because of liberal bias, the attack garnered what they perceive as a delayed response from the police and university and a muted response from the public.
