The student arrested on suspicion of assaulting a professor with a water bottle received a stay-away order from the university and the professor in a court hearing Friday morning.
Judge Kim Nguyen set a preliminary hearing for January 13 and allowed the student, 24-year-old Brianna Gallimore, to be released without bail on her own recognizance. Gallimore and her counsel, Lauren Sanchez, agreed to a 100-yard stay-away order from Assistant Professor Danyao Li at the request of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.
Sanchez also declined to comment or answer questions regarding the case.
Gallimore was arrested on September 23 after allegedly striking Li in the head with a metal water bottle. She is facing a felony charge of “assault with a deadly weapon with force: possible great bodily injury.”
A witness to the alleged attack in September told Annenberg Media then that they believed the attack to be unprovoked and that Gallimore yelled and slammed her water bottle on a table before the class had started.