Ohio State Professor Luke Perez absolutely melted down when a reporter confronted him with some questions, (allegedly?) assaulting the reporter and sending him to the ground in a nasty takedown. Imagine what it must take to respond in this kind of manner… Watch here: An @OhioState professor, Luke Perez, assaults a journalist while OSU Associate Director, Christopher Green, stands by watching. These leftist universities are out of control. They have become communist cesspools. Video: @Juicewag pic.twitter.com/rQxN5pVvdX — Kentucky Girl (@Notwokenow) February 11, 2026 The absolute best part — you can’t make this stuff up — is that the Professor reportedly was in charge of the “Center for Civic, Culture and Society”. Hilarious! Hey Ohio! Imagine running a “Center for Civics, Culture, and Society” that claims to defend free speech then shoving throwing a cameraman to the ground for asking questions. That’s Luke Perez at @OhioState. You do not get to preach liberty and practice intimidation. pic.twitter.com/osSuu1epuH — Mehek Cooke (@MehekCooke) February 11, 2026 Might be time to study up on Civics Prof, I think you’re missing a few concepts! It is not clear from the video what the question actually was that elicited this response, but some are saying it was related to Jeffrey Epstein or Les Wexner: Professor at Ohio State, Luke Perez was put on leave for assaulting this Cameraman. I will say though, you can’t invade People’s personal space like that, but these mfkz in the Epstein Files are losing it & getting desperate. pic.twitter.com/jtjR7lHcVp — M.A. (@MaDJEric) February 12, 2026 NBC News reports that the questioning was related to a former university physician who is accused of sexual abuse by over 200 former Ohio State wrestlers in the 1990s and also to Les Wexner and student load debt: An Ohio State University professor has been placed on administrative leave pending a campus police investigation into an allegation of assault on an independent journalist. Video published Tuesday by a local newsletter writer shows Luke Perez, an assistant professor who studies the ethics of war and international religious freedom, in a hallway while a local journalist and filmmaker, whom local news outlets identified as Mike Newman, holds up a camera and a smartphone. Shortly after the video starts, Newman steps forward and Perez steps in his way. Perez then suddenly knocks the phone out of Newman’s hands and grabs at him. Perez appears to put one of his arms around Newman’s head, knocking Newman to the ground. “I told you not to put that into my face,” Perez tells Newman as he stands over him on the ground. Perez then shouts that Newman assaulted him, though the video doesn’t show that. Newman didn’t respond to a LinkedIn message, and NBC News was unable to find a working phone number for him. … The writer who posted the video, DJ Byrnes, explained in his newsletter The Rooster that he and Newman had been trying to ask questions of E. Gordon Gee, the former Ohio State president, in the hallway of a campus building Monday. He included an additional video showing Gee answering several of his questions about Richard Strauss, a former university physician who is accused of sexual abuse by over 200 former Ohio State wrestlers in the 1990s when Gee was president. According to Byrnes, Newman wanted to ask Gee questions about Ohio State graduates with student loan debt. Perez is affiliated with Ohio State’s Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society, which the Legislature created last year to foster intellectual diversity. Byrnes, a self-described Ohio political gadfly, said they didn’t know who Perez was before that encounter. Gee, the former chief executive of Brown University, Vanderbilt University and West Virginia University, is a consultant for the Chase Center. He recently said calls to remove Ohio billionaire Les Wexner’s name from campus buildings — over Wexner’s yearslong association with Jeffrey Epstein — are “cancel culture gone wild.”