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  "path": "/2026/04/07/trial-starts-today-for-philosophy-lecturer-who-tossed-away-tear-gas-canister-thrown-by-ice/",
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  "textContent": "The trial of Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, begins today. The trial concerns his actions at a protest during a Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid of a cannabis farm near the university. (See this earlier post.) HuffPost reports: When a tear gas canister landed near his feet, Caravello threw it away from the crowd, in a high arc over the federal agents, Angelmarie Taylor [a witness] said. He later removed a separate canister that had become stuck underneath someone using a wheelchair and tossed it away. Shortly after, Taylor said, an agent snatched him and pinned him to the ground as several other agents piled on top of him. Agents eventually placed him in a car and drove away from the facility, driving through protesters who tried to block them from leaving. Taylor jumped in a truck to try to follow Caravello, but agents threw tear gas through the vehicle’s window, she said. By the time she recovered, Caravello was gone. Caravello, a 38-year-old philosophy lecturer at California State University Channel Islands and an active member of his faculty and tenants unions, had told friends he was at the raid. When he stopped responding to text messages, a group of colleagues, friends, and current and former students mobilized an impromptu search committee to find him. They checked nearby hospitals and jails, and eventually made the 70-mile trip to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center, where they heard immigrants detained in the raid were being held. Caravello was detained inside and being held without access to a lawyer, but the people searching for him didn’t find out for two more days, when his name finally showed up in the federal prisoner database. Each time his supporters made the long trip to MDC, officials turned them away, refusing to provide information about Caravello. Caravello is being charged with crimes that might result in him being sentenced to 20 years in prison: Days after the raid, federal officials accused Caravello of throwing a tear gas canister at U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents, and he was charged with a misdemeanor count of assaulting a federal officer. In an affidavit, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Virginia Pulido alleges..\n\nThe post Trial Starts Today for Philosophy Lecturer Who Tossed Away Tear Gas Canister Thrown by ICE first appeared on Daily Nous.",
  "title": "Trial Starts Today for Philosophy Lecturer Who Tossed Away Tear Gas Canister Thrown by ICE"
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