Brookline
Police
Department
Carlos
Portugal
Gouvêa,
a
visiting
professor
at
Harvard
Law
School,
was
arrested
last
week
following
a
shooting
incident
in
front
of
Temple
Beth
Zion
on
Yom
Kippur.
Gouvêa
was
charged
with
illegally
discharging
a
pellet
gun,
disorderly
conduct,
disturbing
the
peace
and
malicious
damage
of
personal
property.
Security
for
the
Temple
called
the
police
reporting
a
man
with
a
gun,
after
the
shooting
which
occurred
their
Kol
Nidre
service.
There
was
damage
to
a
nearby
car
that
police
believe
is
from
Gouvêa’s
pellet
gun.
According
to
the
Temple’s
statement,
no
one
was
injured
in
the
shooting
and
they
“have
no
reason
to
believe
this
was
an
anti-Semitic
event.”
Gouvêa
told
authorities
he
used
the
pellet
gun
to
“hunt
rats
in
the
area.”
Following
his
arraignment,
Gouvêa
was
released
on
his
recognizance.
Harvard
Law
placed
Gouvêa
on
“administrative
leave
as
the
school
seeks
to
learn
more
about
this
matter.”
Gouvêa
himself
graduated
from
HLS
in
2008
and
is
an
associate
professor
at
the
University
of
São
Paulo
Law
School and
the
CEO
of
the
Global
Law
Institute.
His
courses
this
semester
at
Harvard
include
Corruption
and
Inequality
Seminar:
Unraveling
the
Vicious
Circle,
and
Sustainable
Capitalism.
Gouvêa
is
due
back
in
court
for
a
pretrial
hearing
November
6th.
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