A judge has admitted Ricardo Gonzalez Ruiz, whom a Berkeley police officer shot after an armed standoff, to a behavioral health diversion program — and ordered him freed from custody after more than a year in jail.
In a separate criminal trial earlier this year, Ruiz was exonerated of a single misdemeanor assault charge after he drew a stun gun while counterprotesting an anti-Trump protest outside the Fourth Street Tesla dealership in March 2025.
But he still faced charges stemming from the April 2025 incident in which he threatened to shoot police officers, who were investigating a domestic violence report, if they entered his apartment. (His threats were captured on body camera video.)…