Erich Klanton is an anti-fascist activist who earned the moniker the bike lock basher after

taking a metal bike lock and bashing several people over the head with it at a rally in Berkeley

last year. For Chan figured out who he was, he was tracked down and arrested, charged with four

felony counts. We're now learning that he has pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge will face

no jail time and will receive three years of probation. There is a media problem in this country.

It seems the narrative is always that the right is the violent side and I don't really understand

why because in my experience conservatives don't actually protest all that often. But we keep

seeing stories from people claiming that it is violent fascistic white supremacists and right

wingers who are coming out to commit exo-violence. Yet time and time again, the evidence we see is

antifa instigating the fights, harming people, sucker punching individuals and generally causing

the problem. I know I made a video about this a few days ago where I was talking with some other

independent journalists in Portland about what we saw at the Portland rally. But today I want to

take a look at the evidence as to what actually happened in Portland and first we're going to start

with the story of Eric Clanton. From Berkeley side, Eric Clanton takes three-year probation

deal in Berkeley rally bike lock assault case. In this photo it says, a man, a police alleged to be

Eric Clanton holding a bike lock, April 15th 2017. A former East Bay college philosophy

professor who was charged with four counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon,

causing great bodily injury has taken a deal resulting in three years of probation for an attack

at a Berkeley protest last year court records reveal. Eric Clanton had been linked by police to

violent assaults with a metal bike lock during a free speech rally in Berkeley on April 15th 2017.

Before his arrest, Clanton had been outed online on the website 4chan as someone who used a

bike lock to strike a man in the head. The assault was captured in a video clip that drew widespread

...