Pleasanton Company Fires Man After Viral Video Of Activist Attack

PLEASANTON, CA — Pleasanton-based marketing company MadeToOrder has fired a Maryland employee after a video went viral of the man trying to yank a roll of tape off a woman's arm and grabbing her George Floyd posters before charging at the man who is filming.

NBC Bay Area first reported the news.

The assaults occurred about 12:45 p.m on June 1 as a young man and two young women walked the trail near the Dalecarlia Tunnel and posted flyers about a call for community action. Brennan argued about the flyers and grabbed them from one of the victims, police said, then used his bicycle to knock down the man.

After Twitter users wrongly accused multiple people — including a retired Montgomery County Police employee — of being the aggressor, authorities arrested a Kensington, Maryland man in the assault. Anthony Brennan III was taken into custody on a District Court arrest warrant Friday evening.

Detectives from the Maryland-National Capital Park Police charged Brennan, 60, with three counts of second-degree assault, according to a news release.

Brennan did not immediately respond to a request for comment left at a phone number associated with him online.

Park Police investigators received hundreds of tips that pointed to Brennan as the suspected attacker. Brennan and his attorney talked with police Friday, who were allowed to search his home and seize evidence.

Brennan turned himself into detectives when an arrest warrant was served.

Brennan's former employer, MadeToOrder, said they immediately fired him and denounced his behavior as "disturbing, wrongful, and completely unacceptable" in a statement.

"The indefensible conduct displayed by this individual counters our company's culture and commitments," MadeToOrder wrote. "We stand in solidarity with our Black community. Black Lives Matter."

STATEMENT: Recently, we discovered one of our employees engaged in disturbing, wrongful, and completely unacceptable behavior directed towards peaceful demonstrators. [continued] pic.twitter.com/F9M2zQTK8j
— MadeToOrder, Inc. (@MadeToOrderInc) June 6, 2020

Patch staffer Alessia Grunberger contributed to this report.