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Posted on 05/15/2025 8:08:13 AM PDT by george76
I never thought I’d end up in handcuffs and a jail cell for something I didn’t say.
But last May, police in New Haven, Conn., arrested me — because a parking attendant falsely claimed I had used a racial slur against him nearly a year earlier.
I denied it. I asked the cops to check the parking lot’s surveillance video.
They didn’t — and the state charged me first with disorderly conduct, then with three counts of breach of peace in the second degree.
It took almost a year, tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and endless stress before the nightmare ended on March 27, when the prosecutor finally dropped all charges.
Why? “Insufficient evidence,” “inconsistencies,” “credibility issues,” video that “clearly contradicted” the accuser’s claims — and a possibility that I wasn’t even the right person.
The judge dismissed the case.
If this can happen to me — a First Amendment advocate with resources, legal counsel and a public reputation to defend — it can happen to anyone.
In 2011, while still a student at Yale University, I founded the Buckley Institute, named for conservative hero William F. Buckley, Jr.
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For the past decade, we’ve hosted an annual Disinvitation Dinner featuring speakers who have been disinvited from and disrupted on college campuses.
And now here I was, facing not merely an attempt at cancellation, but actual criminal charges that could mean prison
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The interest in my case seemed to have more to do with what the Buckley Institute represents than anything I ever did, or was accused of doing.
Headlines in local newspapers made much of both Buckley and conservatism generally, as left-leaning media outlets welcomed the opportunity to advance the dishonest narrative that everyone on the right is racist.
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The First Amendment was ratified first because the right to freedom of association and expression is of paramount importance. Without it, we cease to be a free society. Yet, it is under attack from the PC police daily through vague and overbroad statutes, e.g., harassment and disorderly conduct. The exceptions to freedom of speech must not swallow that right.
Lawsuit time.
Sue the liar to bankruptcy.
Political lawfare. Democrats are corrupt scum.
THIS is what George Floyd and Black Lives Matter were about - the top-down, Obama-DOJ politicization and weaponization of once independent local police forces.
"The parking attendant, Gerno Allen, who is a Black man, told police Noble called him a racist slur when he encountered her alone"
"When the state finally obtained the video footage I had asked the police to view before arresting me... it showed me, on multiple dates, calmly parking, getting out of my car and walking away...No confrontation, not even any interaction, with the accuser."
The police took the black man's word over the White woman and arrested her - without any proof, which didn't come out for a year.
I don't expect the police, or the accuser, to be held accountable for destroying this innocent woman's life.
Hope she sues the hell out of them, they deserve it.
We need “the loser” pays rules on all civil suits and criminal prosecutions. If you sue, whether you are an individual, a company or the government, or if you “prosecute”, and you lose the case, then you have to pay the legal costs of the person you wrongly sued/accused.
You were set up. The arsehole complaining was clearly a DNC operative — ‘cause you champion free speech, a fatal threat to the commie trash ruining the US.
Sue the arsehole. Cripple everything he does until the HilaryHag gang disappears him.
He should sue as a case of prosecutorial negligence. They brought the charges without ever doing a thorough investigation.
The main reason the US has such a high cost of justice is that we have way to many lawyers and each one of them is demanding a bigger and bigger piece of the taxpayer’s pie. Perhaps Shakespeare’s Dick the Butcher is right.
Make note to self - stay out of New England.
Duh. Lauren, you chose to live in a blue state and attend Yale.
Lauren Noble of the Buckley Institute is fighting for the freedom of speech .
Roberts is part of the coup. The courts are fake. The Jury’s are fake. The prosecutors are evil.
“The parking attendant, Gerno Allen, who is a Black man, told police Noble called him a racist slur when he encountered her alone”
And then?
Loser
Harvard is not the only great university that has big problems.
Look at Yale!
Lauren should talk to me.
When I fought the unions at Yale, in an official management role, the parking lot gorillas pushed my bike over, put nails under my tires, and held me in the lots (and out of the lot) on several occasions.
The parking lot guys are union goons. There was also a small fire in my office. That was fun.
She should also know that the parking lot goons are friends with new haven, Woodbridge derby and ansonia cops.
This can and will spill out off campus.
Even if she had used a “racial slur,” so what? That is not properly a legal matter.
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