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In an unusual move several weeks into the trial of 23-year-old Carlos Dominguez, his defense attorneys have put him on the witness stand to testify about his mental state.

It's the fourth week of the trial Carlos Dominguez, the former UC Davis student accused of stabbing three people, two of the fatally, in the spring of 2023, in a spree that set off a brief panic in the usually quiet college town. Dominguez is now standing trial after an earlier trial was aborted due to questions about Dominguez's mental competency to stand trial.

After being stabilized at a state hospital, Dominguez's competency was deemed restored in late 2023, and he's now standing trial.

As campus newspaper the California Aggie reports, when Dominguez's trial resumed last week following a holiday break, the defense called Dominguez's parents and former girlfriend to the stand. Both testified to his deteriorating mental state in late 2022 and early 2023, with the girlfriend saying she had broken things off with Dominguez because of his increasingly strange behavior.

It seems clear that the defense is hoping that Dominguez will be found not guilty by reason of insanity, and as he took the stand Monday morning, he was first questioned about the traumas he endured as a child of undocumented immigrants. As KCRA reports from the courtroom, Dominguez described being raised primarily by his grandmother during his youngest years in El Salvador, after his parents had already come to the US.

Sometime around kindergarten, his grandparents handed him off to a smuggler and he says he crossed a river into the US on "floaties," and was briefly in foster care before being reunited with his parents in Oakland — whom he did not remember. He described becoming fluent in English by fifth grade, and becoming a mostly straight-A student by high school. But he also described his parents drinking on weekends and becoming violent with each other. He said he learned he was undocumented around age 13.

Dominguez also reportedly testified to taking medication regularly for his schizophrenia since August 2023.

Psychiatrists have already testified regarding Dominguez's mental illness, and have tried to define schizophrenia to the jurors.

Prosecutors have argued that Dominguez acted with premeditation and intent, and was acting out because he had become disgruntled with life. We know that his grades had suffered to the point that he had been placed on academic leave prior to the killings.

Dominguez is accused of killing 50-year-old David Breaux, a mostly unhoused local eccentric who was known in town as "The Compassion Guy." Breaux was found on a park bench where he often slept with 31 stab wounds on April 27, 2023.

Then, on April 29, Dominguez allegedly stabbed 20-year-old UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm, who died from his wounds. He was found to have 52 total wounds, with 12 stab wounds and 40 cuts.

And after two days on the run, on May 1, 2023, Dominguez allegedly stabbed a 64-year-old homeless woman, Kimberlee Guillory, in her tent, and she survived the attack.

Dominguez's appearance in the courtroom is markedly different from when he made his earliest court appearances. Two years ago he appeared gaunt, unshaven, with long hair that had grown over his eyes. Now, clean-shaven and with a haircut, his face has also filled out with some extra weight.

The 22-year-old man who was arrested in connection with three stabbings in Davis last spring, two of them fatal, who has been in mental health treatment since shortly after his arrest, has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.

Carlos Reales Dominguez has been "certified competent," according to state hospital officials in Atascadero. The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office made the announcement Thursday, a little over a week after a judge had ordered Reales Dominguez to remain hospitalized another five months to restore his competency.

As the David Enterprise explains, the judge's ruling on December 20 was based on a November 7 competency report that had reached the judge only after seven weeks. A subsequent report from December 20 said that Reales Dominguez's competency had been restored in those seven weeks, and he was now fit for trial.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Melinda Aiello tells the Enterprise that, under state law, "at any point the doctors can find [a suspect] competent."

Attorneys for Reales Dominguez have not yet commented on the competency ruling, and as the Sacramento Bee reports, a hearing has now been scheduled for January 5. If the suspect's competency is not challenged, then criminal proceedings will proceed.

Reales Dominguez's mental state had possibly been in decline for two years when he allegedly stabbed three individuals in the span of a week in late April and early May. An Oakland native and a biological sciences major at UC Davis until a week before the stabbings, Reales Dominguez was in a severe enough mental state following his May 3 arrest that public defender Dan Hutchinson declared his doubts about his competency.

Hutchinson said that schizophrenia was to blame for his client's behavior, and his crimes.

The prosecution insisted that the competency question go to a jury, which it did in late July. At that hearing, a former girlfriend said that Reales Dominguez had told her the "devil was talking to him in his dreams."

In all of his court appearances, Reales Dominguez has had long hair that hangs over his face and a disheveled appearance.

Reales Dominguez stands accused of fatally stabbing 50-year-old David Breaux, a beloved and mostly unhoused local eccentric; and 20-year-old Karim Abou Najm, a fellow UC Davis student. Days later, a homeless woman, 64-year-old Kimberlee Guillory, was stabbed through her tent, and she survived.

Previously: Davis Stabbing Suspect Grew Up In Oakland, Was Pre-Med Student

The suspect in a series of late-April stabbings in the city of Davis was undergoing a jury-based hearing to assess his competency, but the district attorney has instead dropped a challenge to an earlier competency assessment and the hearing has ended.

21-year-old Carlos Reales Dominguez is being remanded to the care of a state mental-health facility following an announcement in court Thursday that his competency assessment will not be further challenged. As the Davis Enterprise reports, Dominguez was first deemed incompetent to stand trial in June by a court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr. Juliana Rohrer, but the district attorney's office disagreed with the methodology of the assessment. Rohrer concluded that Dominguez is schizophrenic.

Things seem to have changed since the competency hearing began, and since Dominguez has reportedly repeatedly made outbursts in court. As KPIX reports, Dominguez at one point interrupted his own defense attorney saying, "I want to apologize and I want to say I'm guilty and forgive me."

"We’ve agreed that Mr. Dominguez is no longer competent to stand trial," said Deputy District Attorney Matt De Moura, per the Enterprise. But, De Moura said, his office disagreed with the finding that Dominguez did not understand "the nature of the proceedings against him" or "his status in these proceedings."

Yolo County Judge Samuel McAdam had already ruled that Dominguez needed to be involuntarily medicated, and he questioned why he had sat in jail until mid-July before being given any medication. The defense said that Dominguez had refused any medications.

"We stand by that decision to challenge the findings. However, based on the information that came out in trial and the recently initiated involuntary medication proceedings, we are now in agreement that Mr. Dominguez is presently not competent to stand trial," the DA's office said in a statement.

This does not mean that Dominguez won't stand trial, just that the trial will now be delayed. He will now be medicated for six months while in a treatment facility, and after that his competency will be reassessed.

"Competency is very fluid," says Dr. Dana Anderson, a forensic psychologist, speaking to KPIX.

Judge McAdam made clear Thursday that he was already on the side of the defense on the competency issue.

Dominguez stands accused of fatally stabbing 50-year-old David Breaux on April 27, known around town as The Compassion Guy because of a long-term project he was engaged in, while mostly unhoused in a city park, asking passersby to define compassion. He also accused in the April 29 fatal stabbing of 20-year-old UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm; and an injury stabbing days later in which the victim was a 64-year-old homeless woman.

Dominguez had been enrolled at UC Davis until just a few days before the stabbings began, and it seems clear enough that his deteriorating mental health was likely to blame for his academic troubles.

Dominguez grew up in Oakland and was studying to be a doctor.

Breaux's sister was at the courthouse Thursday, as the Enterprise reports, and she told the paper, "It’s reassuring that Carlos will get the treatment he obviously needs right now. I’m thankful to the DA team for acknowledging this."

Judge McAdam said, "I just wish the best for Mr. Dominguez so we can provide justice in this courtroom for the victims and our community. We'll see where that takes us."

Previously: Suspect Arrested In Davis Stabbings, Knife Found On Him

It was interesting that, in the days following his death at the hands of an apparent serial killer in the quiet college town of Davis, residents were reluctant to refer to David Breaux as "homeless." Now, a posthumous profile tries to explain.

Breaux was stabbed in Davis' Central Park in late April, and we soon learned that he was known as a beloved community figure, dubbed "the Compassion Guy," because of a topic of conversation and philosophy that he obsessively engaged passersby with for over a decade. "Would you care to share your definition of compassion?" he would ask, and he collected people's responses in a notebook, ultimately self-publishing them in a book several years ago.

Where he typically posted up, on a main thoroughfare across from Central Park, became known as Compassion Corner as a result, and the city would install a sculptured bench — a piece of public art — in his honor.

Since his arrival in town in 2009, Breaux was mostly unhoused, but as the New York Times explains, most who knew him didn't like to say that he was homeless. He was, instead, a shaman-like figure who disavowed material possessions, and was living a purer and simpler life than most.

A video Breaux made about his own compassionate mission in 2016.

“Did he sleep in the park? Absolutely. Did he go to shelters? 100 percent. But everything David did was conscious and by choice and a lot of it had to do with that he didn’t want anything from anyone,” says Becky Marigo, a case manager at Davis Community Meals and Housing who had been working for years with Breaux, speaking to the Times.

A graduate of Stanford, Breaux likely could have a pursued any number of careers, but family and friends say that he consistently made less ambitious choices. He majored in urban studies with a focus on community development, dabbled in screenwriting and loved film, worked as a camp counselor and as a substitute teacher in Southern California.

He ended up in Oakland, apparently playing a lot of poker and video games, before a breakup with a girlfriend seems to have broken him — or at least push him into a period of intense self-reflection. He says in the video above that he first walked around Lake Merritt, near where he had a studio apartment, trying to come up with a "collective definition" of compassion. He later followed a friend to Davis, and would soon be sitting at the corner of Third and C streets asking people to define compassion.

Per the Times, he was inspired by the British author and religion scholar Karen Armstrong, and he wanted to devote his life to encouraging peace and selflessness by example. Marigo says that he sought shelter in 2010 in order to find some space in which to work on the book that he would eventually publish the next year. Also in 2010, some UC Davis students made a documentary about him. He was asked to help advise when the community was roiled by that infamous pepper-spray incident during the Occupy protests in 2011.

The student documentary "Standing Compassion," from 2010.

By 2013, the bench would be created in his honor, and his place in the proverbial town square was solidified.

While Breaux's friends and college classmates were baffled by his choice to live on the street, some understood — and, just months before his death, Breaux had been showing signs of wanting a new chapter, inquiring about job possibilities and housing.

Breaux's suspected killer, 21-year-old Carlos Dominguez, had just been kicked out of UC Davis for academic reasons days before the killings began. Shortly after stabbing Breaux, authorities believe he went on to stab fellow student Karim Abou Najm, and homeless woman Kimberlee Guillory, the latter of whom survived. He is currently undergoing a psychiatric evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial.

Previously: Davis Stabbing Suspect Grew Up In Oakland, Was Pre-Med Student

Since his Thursday arrest, a few more details have surfaced about Carlos Reales Dominguez, the 21-year-old suspect in three stabbings in Davis — a bizarre spree that began on April 27.

Two days before Dominguez allegedly stabbed a 50-year-old possibly homeless man, David Breaux, on the park bench where he spent much of his time, Dominguez had been enrolled as a junior at UC Davis. Neither the school nor police have explained what transpired or what may have been happening in Dominguez's life in recent months, but UC Davis put out a statement Thursday saying that Dominguez had been "separated for academic reasons" from the university on April 25.

Dominguez had been enrolled at UC Davis since 2020, according to his LinkedIn, and was scheduled to complete his undergraduate work next year. KRON4 reported that Dominguez had first attended Laney College in Oakland before transferring to Davis.

His arrest capped off a week of tense nights and general unease in the small town of Davis, where nearly two-thirds of residents are university students and many more work at the school in some capacity.

"A murderer is off the streets, and our families will sleep easier tonight," said Davis Mayor Will Arnold during a Thursday press conference. "We must remain committed as a community to supporting them with love and compassion. I know we have it in us. Now, the work begins in earnest to heal as a community, to take back our shared spaces, and to move forward as one."

Dominguez appears to have been ambitious student from his teen years, participating in an Oakland program in 2016 that mentors teens interested in going into medicine. While a student at Oakland's Castlemont High School, Dominguez wrote a brief essay for Oakland Story Bank about how he decided to become a doctor.

"I got into health care to help my grandmother — she has type 2 diabetes. It makes me happy and it makes her happy, and I just love seeing her smile," Dominguez wrote. "My grandmother used to take care of me when I was young, and now I take care of her. I’m the oldest in my family. My parents work, so I take care of my younger brother and sister, take them to school. I help with the cooking and cleaning."

He said in becoming a doctor he wanted to give back to the community, perhaps by opening a sports medicine clinic and providing free physicals for those in need.

"Maybe people think it’s boring or it’s scary if you’re a surgeon and you see all that blood, but saving someone’s life makes you feel good about yourself," Dominguez wrote.

His former high school football, coach, James Barnes, spoke to KCRA saying he was a "Great kid, 3.85 GPA. He was involved in all the school activities. He also ran track and participated in other athletics as well."

Dominguez was detained Wednesday after being spotted sitting in a city park where one of two recent stabbing murders took place. Police said they received 15 separate tips about the sighting, and Dominguez fit a widely circulated description of a light-skinned male with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing Adidas track pants.

Police say that Davis cooperated with police and seemed to know that they were looking for him. He was allegedly carrying a backpack in which police found a long, fixed-blade knife.

After questioning him for hours overnight, Davis police declared him the prime suspect in the three recent stabbings. Breaux was killed April 27; a 20-year-old UC Davis student, Karim Abou Najm, was killed April 29 weeks before he was set to graduate; and a 64-year-old homeless woman, Kimberlee Guillory, was stabbed through her tent at an encampment late Monday night/early Tuesday. Guillory was able to call 911 and get quick medical attention, but she remained in critical condition as of Thursday.

Dominguez was scheduled to make his first court appearance in Yolo County Superior Court at 1:30 p.m. Friday.

Previously: Suspect Arrested In Davis Stabbings, Knife Found On Him

On Wednesday, Davis police said that they had detained a person of interest in the serial stabbing case that has left two men dead and one woman in critical condition, and on Thursday they confirmed the man, a UC Davis student, is a suspect and has been booked into jail.

The suspect, who was reportedly spotted by an area resident sitting near the playground in Sycamore Park on Wednesday — near the site of the second of the three stabbings — was taken in for questioning without incident, as the Davis Enterprise reported.

The man, now identified as 21-year-old Carlos Dominguez of Davis, was reportedly wearing Adidas track pants and has dark, shoulder-length hair, which are both part of the suspect description given by witnesses. As the Davis Police Department announced on Facebook, "a large fixed blade knife" was found on Dominguez's person at the time of his arrest. A search warrant is also being served at his residence.

Dominguez was a student at UC Davis "up until last week," according to Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel. Pytel said the department was still gathering background information on the suspect. Campus newspaper The California Aggie says that Dominguez was "separated for academic reasons" from the university last week, around the time that this stabbing spree began.

"Dominguez was interviewed at length and officers collected significant evidence from his person including the clothes he was wearing which appeared to be identical to the clothing description provided after the 3rd attack," police say.

Dominguez was officially booked on suspicion of two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, as well as a knife charge, around 1 p.m. Thursday. See the full press conference here.

The department offered gratitude to the FBI and multiple local law enforcement agencies that offered assistance in the investigation, but it may have been community tips that helped the most.

“This is remarkable, and our community should be proud of everyone who stepped up,” said Chief Pytel in a statement. “I do believe they, and all the law enforcement personnel, especially the members of the Davis Police Department, who were involved in this investigation along the way, may have saved more lives."

The Department said Thursday that there were 15 tips from the area of Sycamore Park on Wednesday afternoon that "directly resulted in the arrest of Carlos Dominguez."

On Thursday morning, police initially posted to Facebook saying they were waiting to release further details until after a service that is happening for the second stabbing victim, 20-year-old UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm. Police are giving a press conference at 2 p.m., likely to discuss the person of interest.

The first stabbing occurred last Thursday, April 27, in broad daylight, in Davis' Central Park. The victim was a well known fixture in the community, 50-year-old David Breaux who had long posted up at a bench in the park and was known as The Compassion Guy, because he would ask strangers to define their take on "compassion." Several years ago, with help from a local group, he self-published a book on the topic.

Najm was stabbed Saturday night around 9 p.m. in Sycamore Park. A 911 caller had reported a dispute occurring in the area, and there were apparently witnesses to what occurred, or to the assailant.

A 64-year-old homeless woman was then stabbed through her tent at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Either just before or just after this incident, a homeless couple living in a tent nearby described seeing the assailant, who fit a previously released description, and one of them began to, but then stopped, chasing him down.

As KTVU reports, Davis police detained several people for questioning in recent days, though none has been named as a suspect so far.

The stabbings left the city and the UC Davis campus on edge all of this week, with the university taking added precautions including making all night classes remote. As the Mercury News reports, the school has also adjusted its security staffing and expanded a program that provides safe rides to and from campus.

Previously: Serial Stabber Has City of Davis On Edge After Two Deaths, and Third Victim Reported Tuesday

Photo via VisitDavis.org

This post has been updated throughout.

Two stabbing deaths in Davis last week as well as a third that injured a homeless woman have been attributed to the same male suspect, and the search for him prompted a brief citywide shelter-in-place order early Tuesday.

The first incidents occurred last week, both in city parks. The first stabbing was in Davis' Central Park around 11:30 a.m. Thursday, and the 50-year-old victim was a community fixture known for chatting up strangers from a particular bench, asking them to define their notion of "compassion." His name was David Breaux, and as reported by KCRA in the video below, he was well known for being kind, thoughtful, and compassionate himself.

The second stabbing occurred Saturday night around 9 p.m. in Sycamore Park, and the victim has been identified as a 20-year-old UC Davis student, whose father is a professor at the school. Karim Abou Najm was a senior computer science major and was a graduate of Davis High School.

The third victim was a 64-year-old woman in a downtown Davis homeless encampment, and she was stabbed through her tent early Tuesday morning. As KCRA reports, the stabbing occurred just before 12:30 a.m., and police immediately issued a citywide shelter-in-place order as they went on the hunt for the suspect. That order was lifted around 4 a.m.

The woman is said to be in critical condition.

The suspect is described by police as being of "unknown race," 19 to 23 years old, with "a light complexion and curly hair, who is 5 feet and 6 inches to 5 feet and 9 inches tall, and with a thin build."

Two homeless residents of Davis told KCRA they believe they saw the suspect early Tuesday.

"So we're sitting in front of the tent, and I said, ‘Babe, this isn’t feeling right,’ and I seen a dude run across the way and started running, but he would stop along every tree to blend in with the tree because it's dark. I noticed that because that’s something you would do if you’re scoping something out," says Isaac Cheessman, speaking to KCRA. "I said, ‘Hey bro,’ and he starts walking normal, and then I said, ‘You look like the dude they’ve been describing that’s been stabbing people.' He takes off and I started to take off after him."

Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel gave a press conference Tuesday morning in which he said investigators still are not able to definitively link the three incidents, though suspect descriptions from the latter two incidents appear similar.

Pytel said that the stabbing last night was particularly "brazen," and that this was highly concerning. "The suspect didn't seem to care that there were several witnesses who could identify him," Pytel said.

No arrest has yet been made.

Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call the anonymous tip line at 530-747-5460, or email policeweb@cityofdavis.org.

This post will be updated as we learn more.

Previously: Beloved Community Member Stabbed in Davis

Top image: Sycamore Park in Davis, photo via Yelp

Photo: Jay Barmann/SFist

The Islamic Center of Davis was vandalized on Sunday, and surveillance video shows a woman in her 20s or 30s arriving outside the mosque around 3:50 a.m., leaving strips of bacon on door handles, and shattering windows on the building.

The Islamic Center said that the video appeared to show an ice pick in the woman's hand with which she was smashing windows, and "She was also seen slashing bike tires that were parked outside of the Masjid."

Sacramento's Fox 40 provides some of the footage in the clip above, and Imam Ammar Shahin tells the station that while he and the community do not understand what was clearly an act of hate, they are not angry. "Respond to crime with crime or hate with hate, we don't do that, our religion is very peaceful," he said.

Sadly, it seems that the mosque was also the target of one of those hateful, photocopied letters that were sent out in late November to mosques in multiple California cities as well as dozens outside the state. Addressing "the children of Satan" and "you Muslims," the letter, which in each case was postmarked in Santa Clarita, California, referred to President Trump as the "new sheriff in town" who is going to "cleanse America."

The LAPD and multiple law enforcement agencies opened investigations into the incident, however the FBI stated that the letter was "too vague" to constitute a hate crime, as the LA Times reported. No arrest or citation has been made in the case.

KCBS News describes the suspect in this new Davis case as "a white female adult with red or brown wavy hair, between 25 to 35 years old, standing 5’4″ to 5’8″ tall, weighing about 160 to 180 pounds... wearing beige high-top shows, gray or blue pants, a white vest and black cap." Davis authorities say they do consider this act a hate crime, because of the use of bacon, which is a pork product forbidden under Islam.

Those with information can contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is offering a $1,000 reward for the woman's arrest.

Related: Threatening Letter Addressed To 'You Muslims' Sent To Seven California Mosques

So, in #Davis, sometimes a turkey just follows you.

A photo posted by Will Keightley (@feverblue) on Oct 6, 2016 at 11:20pm PDT

Davis, the college town to our north, has a somewhat Hitchockian problem on its hands: The town's been besieged by aggressive wild turkeys, and, frightened and fed up, city officials have decided to fight back. The Sacramento Bee reports that members of the city council this week voted to take the war to their foes with a battle plan that consists of trapping and relocating birds as well as killing some of the more menacing creatures.

As it currently stands, the turkeys pretty much have the run of the town. They took over the cemetery ten years ago — chasing mourners and eating flowers left behind at graves — and spread out from there. One particularly mean bird, Downtown Tom, messes with shoppers in the downtown area. One man was even forced to call 911 after a bird (no word on whether or not it was Tom) pinned him up against a wall near the downtown bank.

“They’re living on Fantasy Island here,” Davis’s wildlife resource specialist John McNerny, speaking of the 80 or so birds that call the city home, told the Bee. “They have everything they need.”

It is already illegal to feed the birds, but as the Associated Press observes, over the years many residents of the wildlife friendly city have ignored those rules. Now, it seems, their persistent flouting of the law has come home to roost.

Officials estimate the turkey offensive will cost roughly $20,500 in the first year. Although, with Thanksgiving fast approaching, a much less expensive option presents itself.

Related: Offering A Kid A Soda Will Soon Be Illegal In Davis

The next time you get a kid's meal in Davis, milk and water might be the only options offered.

On Tuesday, the Davis City Council unanimously passed a city ordinance that will make restaurants in the Sacramento suburb offer either water or milk as the default beverage with kid's meals. Soda or sugary juices will still be available at not extra cost, but they must be requested by the parents. Restaurants in violation of the rule face fines that could go up to $500.

"Prior to this ordinance, the soda industry was selecting what your child would drink," Julie Gallelo, executive director of First 5 Yolo, told The Sacramento Bee. "This puts milk and water at the forefront." The rule is intended to be part of a larger fight against childhood obesity. Almost 40% of children in the fifth, seventh, and ninth grades in the United States are said to be overweight or obese. Davis officials estimate a quarter of the city's children are overweight.

The law, which goes into effect on September 1, is the first of its kind in the nation. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the ordinance has been met with very little resistance from both residents and local restaurants. Of Davis' 122 restaurants, one one-fifth offer sugary sodas or juices as the default option, and only four offer healthy options as the standard.

A spokesman for the California Restaurant Association cautioned that simply eliminating sugary drinks was not a "silver bullet" to curb childhood obesity, but added, "We do appreciate the fact that it's not a mandate and that it does allow for parental choice."

Only one resident spoke against the rule at the City Council meeting on Tuesday. "This is kind of overkill," said Dorte Jensen.

With tears in her eyes and a warble in her throat, UC Chancellor Linda Katehi apologized to more than 1,000 students and protesters on Monday over the use of pepper spray against peaceful Occupy student protesters. "I really feel horrible for what happened on Friday... I don't want to be the chancellor of the university we had on Friday," an Arianna Huffington-sounding Katehi said amid a chorus of students shouting for her resignation, adding, "I know you may not believe anything i am telling you today. You don't have to. It is my responsibility to earn your trust."

She went on to say that she ordered protesters' tents removed but did not authorize police to use chemical agents against the students.

LA Times reports: "Katehi announced Monday that she had put campus Police Chief Annette Spicuzza on administrative leave, an effort to restore peace to the 32,000-student public university. Two officers involved in the spraying, in which students were hit in the face as they sat quietly with arms linked, were put on paid leave over the weekend."

Watch the entire thing below:

Both the Board of the UC Davis Faculty Association and the university's English Department have publicly asked for Katehi to resign.

It is our sad duty to inform you that Baron Davis has opted out of his contract and is probably finished as a Golden State Warrior. Yes, the same Baron Davis who has been reiterating for some time that he intended to stay with us this season, the same Baron Davis who told us to our face (actually, to a newspaper and through his agent) that he was "adamant about remaining a Warrior," that same Baron Davis suddenly changed his tune during the last few hours Monday night that he could do so. God… we can’t believe we were actually attracted to him.

Once again, the one Warriors jersey that everybody owns has become obsolete overnight. That happens a lot to this franchise, huh? There’s some speculation that he’s opting out so he can come back at a reduced salary, but that’s… counterintuitive?

If you still care about what he does or who he sees, internet rumors claim there’s interest from the Pistons and the Cavaliers… or if you’re really optimistic about getting some rebound action, a sign-and-trade for Elton Brand.

(By SFist Joe Kukura)