A South Orange County community college says it is investigating a professor for incorporating extremist propaganda about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol into a recorded lecture for an online course about video game design. In the lecture, professor Tom DeDonno, who chairs the Computer Information Management Department at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, said the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection was staged to implicate Trump supporters, called the killing of Ashli Babbitt by Capitol Police during the attack a “joke” and said all of it is part of a larger campaign from the Chinese military to impose an “atheist theocracy” on the U.S. The course that included the pre-recorded lecture was Introduction to Video Game Design, which is intended to teach video game design concepts such as strategies, scripting and game history, according to the course syllabus. Saddleback, which is a public community college with about 20,000 students, launched the investigation following a complaint from a Long Beach student who also contacted the Post about the lecture. Reporters at the Post were able to watch the lecture before it was removed this week. Jennie McCue, a spokesperson for Saddleback College, said the school is looking into the student’s complaint. She said it’s unknown how long the inquiry will take. “The inappropriate content on Jan. 6 has already been removed” from the lecture, said McCue. McCue said DeDonno is still employed at the school, but couldn’t comment on any past complaints that might have been directed against him, saying it was a personnel matter. DeDonno did not return several calls and emails for this story. For the full story click the link in our bio, where you can also sign up for our newsletters and become a member to support local journalism #longbeach #college #january6th