The threats to UCLA a year ago: Aftermath

It may be hard to recall but a year ago UCLA was shut down for a day due to threats from a man who had at one time taught on campus but turned out to be out-of-state when the shutdown occurred. At the time there was controversy about the delayed response of campus authorities to the threat. Among other things, the individual had posted an antisemitic video.* The LA Daily News has a report on the aftermath: [Excerpt]

A Colorado man accused of penning threatening messages directed at the University of California, Los Angeles philosophy department, which led the campus to shift to all remote learning for a day before the man was arrested in Boulder, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial last week. 

In the three-page order filed Jan. 27, U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore in Colorado wrote that he found Matthew Christopher Harris is “presently suffering from a mental disease or defect” leaving him unable to understand the court proceedings against him or defend himself. Harris, 31, of Boulder, was charged with two counts of making interstate threats, and one count each of lying to a firearms dealer and being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition after prosecutors allege he sent two threatening emails to faculty in the department in late January and early February 2022...

Full story at https://www.dailynews.com/2023/01/29/colorado-man-accused-of-sending-threats-to-ucla-found-not-mentally-fit-to-stand-trial/.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/02/update-on-campus-threat.html; https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/02/more-on-threat-to-campus-how-it-was.html.