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Update: Feminist Professor Who Attacked Pro-Life Student Charged With Criminal Battery
The College Fix ^ | March 24, 2014 | Nathan Harden

Posted on 03/24/2014 9:01:11 AM PDT by grundle

The University of California-Santa Barbara professor who allegedly assaulted a pro-life student on campus has been charged with criminal battery.

The College Fix reported on March 12 that department of feminist studies professor Mireille Miller-Young, whose research emphasis is black studies, pornography, and sex work, had been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old student, Thrin Short.

Miller-Young led a small mob that approached a group of pro-life demonstrators who were holding signs. The mob chanted “tear down the sign.” Miller-Young then grabbed one of the signs and stormed off with it, eventually engaging in a physical altercation with 16-year-old Short, one of the pro-life demonstrators, when Short tried to retrieve the stolen sign.

The confrontation took place in the university’s designated “free speech area.”

The 3 by 5 foot sign contained graphic images of aborted fetuses as well as statistics and facts about abortion. The scuffle left the 16-year-old Short with visible scars and scratches on her arms.

Even though she injured the teenager, Miller-Young defended her actions and told police she felt morally justified. She told police that images of aborted fetuses “triggered” her to act the way she did, and that she felt she had set a good example for her students by physically confronting the teenage demonstrator.

Nevertheless, authorities warned that her actions constituted vandalism, battery, and robbery.

Late last week, Santa Barbara officials announced that Miller-Young is being prosecuted for misdemeanor theft, battery, and vandalism in connection with her assault on Ms. Short.

Short says Miller-Young pushed her at least three times, stole her sign, then grabbed and attempted to restrain her while others made off with the sign.

Short’s father told Fox News that he hopes the prosecution of Miller-Young will serve as a lesson for those who seek to halt free speech on campus. “She was free to engage in a rational dialogue with them,” Mr. Short said. “Instead, she chose to bully them, steal and destroy their property, and hit and scratch my daughter.”

“I think the goal of this prosecution should be to set a good example for her students, one that will not only deter her from repeating this conduct, but will also deter those who approve of her actions from imitating her appalling behavior,” Mr. Short added.

Watch a video of the alleged assault:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLemX9QtUa4


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: abortion; california; deathpanels; milleryoung; mireillemilleryoung; obamacare; pornprof; santabarbara; thrinshort; ucsb; zerocare
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To: grundle

These pro life kids should pack a few cans of bear spray for protection against beasts like this whore and her minions. It comes in a large can, shoots a burst up to 30 feet and will put a grizzer on the run.


41 posted on 03/24/2014 9:58:33 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Don't tell me, I'll tell you.)
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To: grundle

hope the university fires her b/c of the seriousness of the charges. /nosarc


42 posted on 03/24/2014 9:59:35 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Psalm 144

there will be both.


43 posted on 03/24/2014 10:00:50 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t yhou find it more than slightly ironic that a university would restrict free speech to a specific area? I thought only Fascists and Communists did that. . Hmmmm


44 posted on 03/24/2014 10:08:12 AM PDT by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: Pecos

These rules are putin (sic) place by the same people who used ‘free speech’ to get where they are today on College campuses...............


45 posted on 03/24/2014 10:17:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger
From the looks of those ‘women’ they will never, ever have need of an abortion....

LOL.. Red, you are prophetic, but with nefarious intents, with you use of double entendre.. I love it.. :)

46 posted on 03/24/2014 10:21:14 AM PDT by carlo3b (Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.. Henry Kissinger)
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To: Genoa

I used to think that too,then I saw that Honey Boo-Boo show.


47 posted on 03/24/2014 10:37:08 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: jazusamo

~Little wonder that graduates have trouble finding jobs, especially in liberal arts fields.~

But it makes them ‘intellectuals’.


48 posted on 03/24/2014 10:39:58 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: grundle
The College Fix reported on March 12 that department of feminist studies professor Mireille Miller-Young, whose research emphasis is black studies, pornography, and sex work,

"Feminist Studies" - now there's a degree and field of study that can take you places!

49 posted on 03/24/2014 10:48:07 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Tax-chick
Professor Miller-Young is pregnant.

Empirical proof that primates can impregnate humans?

50 posted on 03/24/2014 10:54:09 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Red Badger

I guess they couldn’t read the sign...................

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You don’t understand; it’s a free speech area only if you are repeating leftist drivel. It’s like Gov. Cuomo said about NY state — conservatives are not welcome. Some animals are more equal than others.


51 posted on 03/24/2014 10:55:06 AM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: jsanders2001

Would it be racist to call the professor a “Brown Shirt”?


52 posted on 03/24/2014 10:57:25 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: grundle

Teach your children well.


53 posted on 03/24/2014 11:25:29 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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To: forgotten man
"What kind of porn is she associated with? Pornography for the blind?

I'm thinking she's aversion therapy.

54 posted on 03/24/2014 12:48:30 PM PDT by DannyTN
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The scent of patCHulli triggers my rage........


55 posted on 03/24/2014 3:38:01 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had Enough Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: Tax-chick

“Professor Miller-Young is pregnant”

Pregnant with what?


56 posted on 03/24/2014 4:50:54 PM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and domestic")
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To: grundle

“Watch a video of the alleged assault”

Alleged??


57 posted on 03/24/2014 5:14:40 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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