OSU Professor Faces Assault Charges

Ohio State University professor Luke Perez faces assault charges after attacking a filmmaker on campus last week, according to The Columbus Dispatch. 

OSU placed Perez, an assistant professor at the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society, on administrative leave last Wednesday after he assaulted filmmaker Mike Newman. Newman was attempting to question E. Gordan Gee, a two-time former OSU president and an invited speaker to Perez’s Profiles in American Leadership class. 

The attack was caught on video by D.J. Byrne, author of the local left-wing newsletter The Rooster, after Byrne and Newman intercepted Gee coming out of a public restroom. The encounter occurred after a calm exchange between Gee and Byrne, when Newman said he wanted to ask “just one more” question.

In a statement on Feb. 14, OSU spokesperson Ben Johnson told the Dispatch, “Perez has been served a summons for assault.”