{"id":97237,"date":"2016-05-24T20:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T04:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97237"},"modified":"2016-05-24T20:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T04:25:36","slug":"man-who-threatened-milo-at-depaul-identified-as-church-minister-edward-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97237","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Threatened Milo At DePaul Identified As Church Minister Edward Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/milo\/2016\/05\/24\/violent-milo-event-protester-identified-church-minister\/\">From Breitbart<\/a>: The male ringleader who led a protest against Milo Yiannopoulos at this evening\u2019s event in DePaul University has been identified as student and church minister Edward Ward.<br \/>\nWard stormed the stage during Yiannopoulos\u2019 talk earlier today with a female accomplice, and threatened to punch Yiannopoulos whilst security stood back and refused to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campus left constantly brands people like me as \u201cdangerous,\u201d a threat to student safety and wellbeing. Yet they\u2019re the ones who are happy to threaten a gay British conservative with physical violence. Even more astonishing is the fact that Mr. Ward is apparently a Minister. I don\u2019t think his actions today were very Christlike\u201d said Yiannopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill DePaul have the courage to discipline Edward Ward for his behaviour? In a normal world they would, but there\u2019s a nasty institutionalized habit of letting left-wing activists get away with the worst of offences. After all, despite forking out nearly a grand in security costs, they wouldn\u2019t even stop the activists from storming the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ward, who was previously homeless before becoming an active leader in his local church, was identified on Twitter shortly after the disruption with his currently unidentified female accomplice. Since the altercation, numerous users on social media have called for sanctions against the individuals, including their arrest for assault and violent threats.<\/p>\n<p>According to his Facebook page, Ward is a Political Science alumnus of DePaul University, and a youth organizer at \u201cBlocks Together,\u201d a community organizing group in Chicago. After graduating from DePaul, Ward founded Men Of Vision and Empowerment (M.O.V.E), a \u201cyouth empowerment group\u201d in the same city. He was the subject of a glowing profile in DePaul\u2019s online student newspaper, which tipped him for state office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Breitbart: The male ringleader who led a protest against Milo Yiannopoulos at this evening\u2019s event in DePaul University has been identified as student and church minister Edward Ward. Ward stormed the stage during Yiannopoulos\u2019 talk earlier today with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97238,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97237\/revisions\/97238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}