More Complete Information on Berkeley Lockdown Thursday, April 28, 2022
A more complete story of the Berkeley lockdown last Thursday is now available from Berkeleyside. See below. The individual who made the threats was part of the campus Underground Ambassadors program. Note that although the campus deleted the website of the Underground Ambassadors program, as the article below points out, the website including photos, etc. - is readily available from Google cache. So apart from the Berkeley lockdown story, this episode is also a reminder that once you put things on the web, it is hard to make them disappear. ==== UCPD: Student’s threats to shoot UC Berkeley staff led to lockdown
The district attorney’s office has charged Lamar Bursey with two felony counts of making criminal threats against staff members. By Emilie Raguso, April 27, 2022, Berkeleyside
A 39-year-old student in a UC Berkeley program for formerly incarcerated individuals threatened to shoot at least two staff members last week after being placed on academic suspension, court records show. The threats, which appeared in an April 21 email to UC Berkeley staff members, according to the University of California Police Department, prompted a campus-wide lockdown Thursday. On Monday, the Alameda County district attorney’s office charged Lamar Bursey of Hayward with two felony counts of making criminal threats against two UC Berkeley staff members. The San Francisco Chronicle was the first to report the arrest. According to court and UCPD records, Bursey had been placed on academic suspension after causing disturbances on campus on the morning of April 14 in the Valley Life Science Building and the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. Few details about those incidents have been released, but UCPD told Berkeleyside that Bursey had threatened a UC Berkeley staff member that day. Last week, authorities say, the situation escalated when Bursey sent an email shortly before 6 a.m. stating that he would come into the office that day and planned to cause harm. “Stop playing with me,” he wrote, according to court papers. “Depending on who I feel was helping or not, 2 people on this email will get shot.” UCPD said one of the people who received the email “was scared for his life and the life of UCLA Faculty Association Blog: 2nd Quarter 2022
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