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Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:01 AM Mar 2014

Man Arrested After Pepper Spraying GMU Law Professor

Man Arrested After Pepper Spraying GMU Law Prof

by ARLnow.com | March 26, 2014 at 4:20 pm

A George Mason University law professor was pepper sprayed in his classroom today after a man tried to place him under a citizen’s arrest, according to Arlington County police.

The incident happened at GMU’s Arlington campus, near Virginia Square, around 3:00 p.m. Police say the man entered the classroom and attempted to place the professor under a citizen’s arrest. The professor tried to get the man — described as a white male in his 20s or 30s — to leave, at which time the man pepper sprayed him and a scuffle ensued, according to Arlington County Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck. ... The professor did not know the man, Sternbeck said.

An off-duty police officer heard the commotion and tried to intervene. The suspect fled but was arrested outside the school by Arlington County police officers, according to Stenbeck. He’s now being questioned by police. Several charges are pending.

Paramedics evaluated the professor and about a dozen students who were in the classroom at the time and suffered residual effects from the pepper spray. There were no reports of anyone being taken to the hospital.


Wait; there's more to the story. Who was that professor? Why, it's Tyler Cowen, the head of Wendy Gramm's outfit, the Mercatus Center.

Economist Tyler Cowen pepper-sprayed by lunatic performing ‘citizens arrest’

Mercatus Center Director Tyler Cowen suffered a pepper-spray attack at the hands of a deranged man on Wednesday at George Mason University, where he teaches economics.
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Tyler Cowen Pepper Sprayed While Teaching Law School Class On Vigilantism

The Huffington Post | by Arin Greenwood
Posted: 03/27/2014 10:29 am EDT Updated: 03/28/2014 11:59 am

A man was arrested on Wednesday after bursting into economist Tyler Cowen's George Mason University law school classroom, jumping on a table and trying to effect a citizen's arrest.
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Arlington police spokesperson Dustin Sternbeck told HuffPost on Thursday that Jonathan Pendleton, 31, of Alexandria, Va., has been charged with assault with a caustic substance and abduction.

Police have yet to reveal any motive in the attack, and GMU says that Pendleton wasn't known to Cowen or a student at the university. Someone going by the name Jonathan Pendleton left an odd comment earlier this month on the wildly popular economics blog that Cowen keeps with another professor:...


Economist Tyler Cowen's Attacker Identified as John Pendleton

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown|Mar. 27, 2014 4:19 pm

The man who attacked economist and George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen with pepper spray yesterday has been identified as 31-year-old John Pendleton. Economic Policy Journal points out that a Jonathan Pendleton has previously commented on Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, accusing Cowen of hacking his computer and sexually harrassing him for several months.

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