Oberlin College REFUSES to pay $33m in damages to family-run bakery that called cops on three black students for shoplifting, only for bully dean to falsely accuse them of racial profiling and set woke mob on them

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[algore]

Oberlin College was ordered by Ohio's state appeals court to pay Gibson's Bakery the sum on April 1, but continues to contest the payout, and says it is considering its options.

The bakery was wrongly accused of racism after calling the police on three Oberlin black students for shoplifting a bottle of wine.

One of its workers - Allyn Gibson - was even attacked by the three shoplifters after refusing to hand over a fake ID, and demanding they hand over the stolen wine.

That trio were later convicted - but not before Oberlin went along with its students' union's claim that their arrests had been as a result of racial profiling.

Shockingly, the college's then dean of students, Meredith Raimondo, helped circle the wagons, and even distributed leaflets accusing Gibson's of racial profiling in an attempt to destroy the 137 year-old business.

The arrogant academic even texted another dean to share her desire to unleash another woke mob on an academic who blasted Oberlin's bullying of Gibson's.

She wrote: 'F**k him. I’d say unleash the students if I wasn’t convinced this needs to be put behind us.'

Despite her disgraceful lies and bullying, the 52 year-old was allowed to stay with the college, and stepped down at the end of 2021 to take up a position at Oglethorpe College in Georgia.

Former Dean of Students and Vice President Meredith Raimondo stoked protests against Gibson's Bakery following the shoplifting incident, even though the claims were found to be totally false. She has since been blamed for much of the behavior that has seen Oberlin ordered to pay $35 million for defamation, with Raimondo since moving to a college in Atlanta

[Political Junkie Too]

Liberals run to the courts until the court rules against them, and then they ignore the ruling and declare them to be illegitimate.

-PJ

[JohnBovenmyer]

>Depending on how the endowment is structured, they money never passes to the school unless the conditions are met. If the school doesn't meet them - no funds.

All the more reason to go after the endowment. If the first funds they try to attach go poof, well they are still owed the judgement. Go after the next endowed funds. Repeat until paid. Pretty soon instead of losing 3% of their endowment they could find it down 5, 10 or more %. I bet they start cooperating to find payable funds before it drops by half. I seriously doubt 98% of their endowment is entailed and unavailable. A fair number of folks must have given to some general fund.

[JohnBovenmyer]

BTW, speaking of unredeemed judgements, IIRC Brandon’s other brother, not Jim, owes a $1M judgement from a wrongful death suit several years back. And has been avoiding paying any of it by claiming not to have the money.

[TChad]

That only leaves the 99.99% of American universities that don't want to attract conservative students.

You may be right, but I thought declining enrollments meant that they couldn't be picky. They need more bodies.