Caleb Gannon was charged with assault and battery months after he ran through traffic and tackled pro-Israel activist Scott Hayes in Newton, Massachusetts, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Wire.
Gannon, 31, was charged in Newton District Court on Friday. His arraignment is set for December 30.
Gannon attacked Hayes on September 12 while the veteran was participating in a demonstration with six to eight other pro-Israel activists by holding American and Israeli flags next to a busy intersection.
Gannon has a history of inflammatory social media posts where he advocated for the destruction of the United States, refused to denounce Hamas, and labeled murdered American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin as a terrorist who “got what he deserved.”
“I don’t condemn Hamas. I condemn my family,” Gannon wrote in one post about the terrorist group that killed, raped,…
