Harvard Law School describes visiting professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea as a “human rights activist” who founded a Brazilian think tank that “led the largest anti-violence campaign in the country, resulting in the enactment of the federal Gun Control Act of 2003.” He’s now on administrative leave from the Ivy League institution after he was arrested for firing a pellet gun near a Massachusetts synagogue on Yom Kippur.
Gouvea—who came to Harvard from the University of Sāo Paulo Law School, where he leads the Diversity and Inclusion Committee—fired the pellet gun around 9 p.m. Wednesday outside of Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, Mass., a short drive from Harvard’s Cambridge campus. More than a dozen police officers descended upon the area and arrested Gouvea, but only after he escaped to his home near the synagogue following a “brief physical struggle.”
Gouvea was handcuffed on the sidewalk outside of his home and told police he was “using the pellet rifle to hunt rats in the area.” Law enforcement officials later found a car with a window shattered from a pellet nearby. They determined that Gouvea was not targeting the temple.
Gouvea’s native Brazil is home to strict gun control laws—and Gouvea himself has been at the center of political efforts to ensure that’s the case.
— Jessica Schwalb in Harvard Law Professor, a Founding Member of Think Tank That Drove Gun Control in Brazil, On Leave After Firing Pellet Gun Near Synagogue During Yom Kippur
I guess the term ‘think tank’ does not include ‘visiting’, but somehow here as though permanently, professors from Brazil.
At what point is a ‘visiting professor’ no longer just ‘visiting’?
The professor has been placed on administrative leave by Harvard.
Correction:
Should have been…
The professor has been placed on administrative leave by Harvard, with pay. So Harvard rewards him with paid leave for being stupid.
‘Rats’ is a common antisemitic reference to Jews, has been for a long time and even Hitlers minions referred to Jews as rats or like rats. But its use in amtisemetc reference to hating Jews actually goes back thousands of years to biblical times. The prof has an antisemitic history.
He was hunting Jews with his pellet gun.
.40 cal,
Please don’t tell me you expected ACTUAL accountability from academia?? I thought more highly of you. Wasn’t a chance in hell that Hah-vahd was going to actually punish that Jew-hating, Leftist/fascist clown masquerading as an “academic”, and to expect otherwise was a fool’s hope.
“40 cal,
Please don’t tell me you expected ACTUAL accountability from academia??”
Nope, didn’t expect anything from them. Its become normal for left wing to reward stupid and violence and hatred.
With all the open jew hatred at the university I don’t believe him.
Jews have long been associated with rats in antisemitic caricatures. Hitlers minions referred to Jews as rats or like rats. ‘Rats’ is a common reference to Jews for antisemitic people. The prof has a history of being antisemitic.
He was ‘hunting’ Jews. His excuse of rats is to avoid saying ‘Jews’ but at the same time say ‘Jews’ without using the actual word.
Yes I know of this “rat” history. Unfortunately the jews are s0:ci@.li;st pr0gres-sive in their p0litic@l 0rie”nt@ti0n.
And don’t believe in 2A civil rights.
Which makes them the enemy but for a different reason. If the gassing of 6 million of them doesn’t convince them everyone needs guns. I don’t know what will.
Christian churches are getting guns. They are not waiting for the government to save them. Like the jews are now.
“…jews are s0:ci@.li;st pr0gres-sive…”
Except for the JPFO folks.
You forgot the shooting ckub in LA california. “The jews can shoot”
Chris T,
Well, if you were paying attention, it might have come to your attention that (i) Israel has drastically rolled back its own internal “anti-gun” laws, and (ii) many synagogues (in the US, at least) are quietly authorizing armed attendance by qualified members. Yes, by and large, the Jewish community is mostly anti-gun. But cf the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the history of the Irgun, the history of Mossad, etc. The Jews, just like the rest of us, are hardly monolithic on this (or virtually any other) subject. One of my favorite range buddies is an Orthodox Jew. Just sayin’.
Honest but misleading in the professor’s statement.
He “escaped” a dozen cops after a struggle?
Do I have to specify “rodents” when “hunting” rats with my Beeman or will folks think Jews are going after my chicken feed?
“Hunting rats” but shooting out car windows. Nice try, Harvard boy.
Dad,
Hey, he’s a Leftist/fascist academic, so it was probably the best he could manage (after all, a man-sized target is awfully hard to hit with a rifle from 30 or 40′ away!). Cut him some frickin’ slack, would ya??
Sounds like he needs a trip back home, assisted by ICE if necessary. He is a guest in our country and he can’t behave himself so he shouldn’t be allowed to stay. He can go back to his gun-free utopia of Brazil where only the criminals and off-duty cops have guns.
Honest critics of anyone or any group, with a history of anti-civil rights activity. Should not be in moderation or erased.
It is anti-1st amendment.
I think his “think tank” has a pretty loose definition of “think.” I also think that’s par.