UCSC researcher targeted in attack - animal rights activists believed to be behind home invasion

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Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel


SANTA CRUZ - A UC Santa Cruz faculty member whose biomedical research using animals sheds light on the causes of breast cancer and neurological diseases was the target of an attack Sunday afternoon, reportedly by animal rights activists.

UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal confirmed late Monday that an off-campus home invasion by six masked intruders occurred at a faculty member's home. In a statement, Blumenthal called the incident "very disturbing."

Santa Cruz police reported that six people wearing bandanas tried to break into a Westside home just before 1 p.m., and that one of the family members, not the faculty member, was attacked before the intruders fled. The male victim had made sure his wife and children were safe in the back of the house before he confronted the attackers. He suffered minor injuries after being hit with an unknown object. None of the other four people in the house were injured.

The name of the faculty member was not released, but UCSC said assurances have been made to protect the faculty member and the family - in addition to other staff and students who have been targeted by animal rights activists in recent weeks, campus spokesman Jim Burns said.

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1. I hope they prosecute

the jerks. This is uncalled for.

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2. that's sickening.

those so-called animal rights activists, if that was indeed who they were, are horribly misguided. There are smarter ways to decrease and eventually eliminate animal testing. Johns Hopkins Univ.medical campus has a department dedicated to it.

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3. The person in the house should have blown the fuckers away

Or what might have been fitting would be to sic a pit bull on these "activists".