Cal State Los Angeles professor doxxes ICE agent

A California State University, Los Angeles professor and co-founder of Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles chapter publicly identified a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent by name and pointed a crowd toward his suspected hotel during a left-wing summit Sunday, repeatedly telling attendees to “f—- him up.”

Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at Cal State LA, spoke at an event billed on its invitation as a summit to end the terror against the people, organized by the immigrant-rights group Ventura County Defensa with union backing, according to the Daily Signal.

The agent, Brian Palacios, had already been publicly identified since mid-January, after his name surfaced in an unrelated child-custody filing, according to ABC7 Los Angeles. What was new Sunday was Ms. Abdullah’s disclosure of his suspected hotel. She told the crowd he was staying nearby. “You see the devil right there, f—- him up,” she said, according to the Daily Caller, before giving out the hotel’s street address.

Mr. Palacios fatally shot 43-year-old Keith Porter Jr. on New Year’s Eve while off duty at a Northridge apartment complex where both men lived. The Department of Homeland Security says Mr. Palacios ordered Mr. Porter, who had been firing a rifle into the air, to put down the weapon, then fired in self-defense when Mr. Porter allegedly failed to comply and pointed the gun at him, the Daily Signal reported. Mr. Porter’s family disputes that account.

“We don’t believe this narrative of self-defense,” said Jamal Tooson, the family’s attorney. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has not filed charges and is still investigating, the family says.

Ms. Abdullah also urged the audience to read a 1972 book by George Jackson, a black radical who was serving time for armed robbery, was linked to the killings of four prison guards and two inmates, and was shot dead by guards during a 1971 San Quentin escape attempt, and to “study guerrilla warfare.” She told listeners to use “every single tool in your toolbox” against federal agents.

“There should be nowhere that they go where they are comfortable,” she declared, according to the Daily Wire.

Video of the panel has become its own point of dispute. BreakThrough News, an outlet with ties to other speakers at the summit, released footage that appears to have jumps at two points, removing Ms. Abdullah’s calls to target Mr. Palacios and her mention of his location, the Daily Signal reported. Stu Smith, an investigative analyst with the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, posted his own video of the remarks online and later gave the Daily Signal what he described as an unedited recording matching his footage.

Mr. Palacios has accused his girlfriend’s ex-husband, Omar Escorcia, of leaking his identity to Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles chapter; Ms. Abdullah has denied any contact with him, the Daily Wire reported.

The summit also featured a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, an activist group whose name resurfaced last year after federal prosecutors charged a Chicago man with fatally shooting two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. The group has said the shooter’s association with a PSL chapter had “ended in 2017,” years before the attack, according to the American Jewish Committee.

Cal State LA said in a statement that it was aware of Ms. Abdullah’s remarks but noted the gathering was “off-campus” and not sponsored by the university, and that she had attended in “an individual capacity, not representing the university.”

“The university respects free speech, including speech with which the university strongly disagrees,” the statement said, adding that the CSU system does not “condone hatred, threats, or violence of any kind.”

Ms. Abdullah’s university profile describes her as a “recognized expert on race, gender, class, and social movements” who was among the original organizers who founded Black Lives Matter and continues to serve as a Los Angeles chapter leader.

ICE agents have faced a sharp rise in threats nationwide since the start of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement push, with the Department of Homeland Security citing steep increases in assaults, vehicular attacks and death threats against agents in the field, the Daily Signal reported.