Claremont [CA] professor suspected of staging hate crime

sfgate.com ^ | Wednesday, March 17, 2004

[vikingchick]

A professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that stirred student protests at the Claremont colleges is suspected of staging the vandalism herself, police said Wednesday.

Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on March 9, leading faculty to cancel classes and students to stage rallies the following day.

[vikingchick]

Amen to that!

[Oschisms]

Folks, please send a polite reasons letter to the President of the College president@pitzer.edu, she should be encouraged to do the right thing and fire the dishonest vandal who did this.

Whoa, there. She was a visiting prof at Claremont McKenna, not Pitzer. President Trombley can't fire her. Both colleges are on the same campus and share the same resources, so if something happens at one, all 7 college Presidents have to issue the same BS statements.

[GulliverSwift]

Not in the same way, though. It sounds more like the old "institutional racism" canard.

[Bonaparte]

"She did it."

The police certainly think so. They referred this case to the DA. I'll bet Ms. Dunn is already lawyered up too.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets"

As an '84 Grad married to a Jewish '84 Grad, I doubted this story from the get-go. CMC's student body then was about 70% Republican and energized, but hardly racist. The worst thing you could say is we felt sorry for the obvious affirmative action students, and tried to help them out.

[william clark]

I suspected this was a hoax as soon as the first reports came in on it. For one thing, there was just a little too much "diversity" in the epithets on her car. Genuine bigots seem to have trouble focusing on more than two personal characteristics at a time.

[shhrubbery!]

Wonder what this moron thinks now?

I guess she's "stuck in neutral" till her marxist profs tell her what to think next. They'll come up with something real slick. They always do

Oh they'll come up with something slick alright. Likely the same defense they came up with when the Tawana Brawley hoax was exposed: "Well, maybe this particular story wasn't 100% true -- but it could have been!"

[vikingchick]

First of all, any 'white male' students who got harrassed as a result of this fake hate crime hoax should sue the lying professor. And the college so that it never happens again (unless it's real.)

This has got to stop NOW. Make an example of this witch, put her away on terrorism charges, and then her kind will think twice before crying wolf.

Oh, and change the laws so that the penalty will be a one-way ticket to Gitmo.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Couldn't the FBI compare handwriting in her notes to what was scrawled on the car to see if there are any similarities? This woman is still innocent until proven guilty.

Yeah, they could and would. They would also examine her clothing and shoes for paint dust/over spray, examine her fingers for signs of paint from the nozzel of the spray can, check her account for paint purchases, and interview the *witnesses* to determine their credibility.

Dunn also gave inconsistent statements during two interviews by law enforcement. Not good.

I would guess she is may very well be in deep sh*t.

[ApplegateRanch]

One charge that could result, he said, is a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report.

Sickening. She causes all this hysteria, and might get a slap on the wrist. Make it a felony and make em do time if they lie about this kind of thing, I say!

She'll cop it with 'it was an experiment in applied psychology, for a paper I'm working on..." and not get anything.

Much as "performance artists" fall back to, when they get caught doing something any of us would be sent to jail for doing.

[Joe Hadenuf]

There is NO evidence to suggest the professor committed this crime except for secret testimony from anonymous people who think they saw her.

No evidence?

What do you call inconsistent statements during the two interviews by law enforcement, and the two witnesses?

Innocent people do not make inconsistent statements.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Amen sister!

[Bonaparte]

"Yeah, they could and would."

Things the police/FBI can find -- matching spray paint mist on clothes, shoes; the can, which was probably found, traced to the store where it was bought and where the clerk or a paper trail may identify the buyer -- if the time of day the purchase was made is known, they will look for suspect's alibi. If the police are even marginally competent, they immediately impounded every campus dumpster and combed the whole place for evidence. They're not dealing with an especially clever suspect.

[Travis McGee]

Great observation. Spot on.

[Bonaparte]

"...it was an experiment in applied psychology..."

And the judge will invite her to participate in another experiment in applied penology.

Winona Ryder tried the same sort of thing when she was caught shoplifting -- it was all acting research.

[Joe Hadenuf]

They're not dealing with an especially clever suspect

This does appear to be the case.

[WOSG]

Great way to pass the buck, :-)

okay try:

president@claremontmckenna.edu
Pamela Brooks Gann is the prez there.

[vikingchick]

You go bro!! ha ha

[churchillbuff]

Mel Gibson is to blame - - isn't he?

[Bonaparte]

She's just a visiting prof. Besides, the college would be nuts to let her even be on campus now that she's a criminal suspect with a police referral to the DA. A lot of people on campus are going to be looking at her funny and somebody might even do something violent. I would guess the school has had enough embarassment, but what do I know?. Maybe they haven't.