Posted on 08/07/2015 7:24:35 AM PDT by dennisw
There is a relatively rare case developing in Connecticut where Professor Minati Roychoudhuri, 62, has been charged with making a false police report after charging that she was racially profiled by a police officer. A review of the dash cam video contradicted factual assertions made by Roychoudhuri in her sworn statement.
Roychoudhuri was pulled over on May 9th by an officer and cited for failure to drive in the established lane. A month after the citation, she filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Public Safety:
Dear Sir/Madam
I was traveling to Wethersfield on Route 15/5 to attend a meeting 9th May. I was on the left lane on route 15 and had to take exit 85. After the Brainard Airport exit, and after the merging lane ended, I signaled and went to the right lane to take exit 85. An unmarked police car with flashing light stopped me on the ramp after I had taken the exit. The policeman asked me if I could speak English and if I knew why he had stopped me. I said, yes to speaking English and no to why he had stopped me. He then asked me for my drivers license and registration. He returned with an envelope and said that I could simply mail in the infraction.
The officer did not give me any reason as to why had stopped me. His asking if I could speak English shows that he had racially profiled me and was not able to give me a concrete reason for stopping me. Further, the officer had checked Hispanic in the race category in the infraction ticket. I am a Professor in English at Capital Community College, I teach about diversity and the negative impact of racial profiling, I have now become a target of the same insidious behavior! It is easy to connect the dots with the nationwide racial profiling which has led to serious consequences. I request that my infraction charges be dropped and action be taken against the officer. I have talked with the Senator and Legislator of my constituency regarding this matter and I am sending a copy of this letter to them as well.
Thank you in advance, Sincerely, Minati Roychoudhuri
The police conducted an investigation and reviewed the tape. This is the transcript and the investigators concluded that the officer never asked if Roychoudhuri could speak English and did in fact explain the basis for the citation:
Officer: Hi maam, do you know why Im stopping you today? Roychoudhuri: No O: OK. Theres that big gore area with white lines painted across it and you cut in front of it, in front of me, thinking its a lane or something. You have to wait until its a dotted white line. License and registration. (She handed him insurance, so he requested the registration again, which she _____CUT_____
The Internal Affairs investigators interviewed Roychoudhuri in person and she repeated the same claims of racial profiling as well as specific allegation that there was no explanation of the violation. She then signed a statement that it is a crime for her to make any claims that she does not believe to be true in an effort to mislead a public servant.
Roychoudhuri has now been arrested for giving a false statement in the second degree. The state code mandates:
______CUT_____
IOW immigrate to America and try to make an easy score via a lawsuit on racial profiling
You can’t trust these college “professors.”
Not good enough we allowed her entry into our once great country and let her escape from the Hellhole of her Birth but she has to turn around and bite the hand of the people who let her in! Ungrateful BIATCH.
Good. Lying to the police is a crime. No free pass for people with unusual names.
A college professorship is not about ability and competence. It’s about being a politically acceptable color or ethnicity.
My sentiments exactly and this goes on thousands of times a day from 3rd worlders we allow to immigrate here. We need to cut off all 3rd world immigration for 10-20 years.
This person obviously had an agenda and tried to use an incident to her advantage by lying and making the assumption that the Police Dept would just accept her I am a victim attitude. They did not. Proved she was lying and are following up appropriately.
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A ‘hellhole” she likely played a role in creating.
College: The place where you will find the dumbest and most ignorant people.
I can believe that she honestly believed she was being racially profiled. Why can I believe it? Because she’s a stupid racist foreigner bitch!
+1.
A friend used to be on the PhD track in the English Dept at Auburn, until he realized he had no future in that arena as a white male. He got into the investment analyst business and has done very well for himself, so it ended well.
English Departments in our universities are little better than the _______ Studies Departments.
You forgot to call her “fat.”
IMHO this is why they should not be allowed in the country.
Our society works because most people tell the truth.
Sad to say that there are entire continents where lying is just the way they do things.
Dumbass here just didn't understand the concept of electronic recording.
And, in classic third-world self-destructive form, doubled down when caught.
Liberals lie. It’s who they are. It’s what they do.
She needs to be excreted from our country like the piece of human feces that she is.
We have plenty of angry, ignorant people in this country that hate me simply because of the color of my skin.
We don’t need to import more from 3rd world toilets.
The person who hired her needs to be fired too.
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