More hate crimes run amok at Columbia U.
Racist crimes against blacks and Jews continue at Columbia. For example, we have this case of a hang-noose found hung on the door of a black professor's office (via Michelle Malkin):
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Columbia University has refused to turn over security videotape that could help identify who hung a noose on a black professor’s office door, police said Thursday.Here's another on this case from the NY Daily News. The university, which may have stonewalled at first, is now cooperating and has given over the tapes:
Investigators began asking on Wednesday for tapes from cameras in the building, but have been rebuffed by administrators, said Paul Browne, the New York Police Department’s top spokesman.
He said police will have to get a court order to force the school to provide video they believe could crack the case.
“It’s unfortunate because it adds a time-consuming step to the investigation,” Browne said.
A Columbia spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
Authorities were testing the 4-foot-long twine noose for DNA evidence, but had no suspects as of Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, the professor who was the target of the attack, Madonna Constantine, told hundreds of faculty and students at a rally on the Ivy League campus that the incident was a “blatant act of racism” that “reeks of cowardice and fear.”
“I’m upset that our community has been exposed to such an unbelievably vile incident,” she said.
Police believe the noose was placed on the doorknob of Constantine’s office at Teachers College-Columbia’s graduate school of education-Tuesday morning, when a colleague spotted it and notified authorities.
Police declined to discuss possible motives or suspects.
After stonewalling cops for more than 24 hours, Columbia University has agreed to hand over security tapes that could help ID the person who left a hangman’s noose on a black professor’s office door.And then, we have another case of anti-Semitic graffiti found in a bathroom at the university:
The Ivy League school initially told cops they needed a subpoena to get a look at security tapes from Teachers College and the names of students in Professor Madonna Constantine’s classes.
Cops then spent hours putting together the legal paperwork and getting a judge to sign off on the court order around midnight last night, they said.
They were about to serve the subpoena on Columbia when the university flip-flopped - after getting media inquiries - and agreed to hand over 56 hours of tape.
“It’s unfortunate because it adds a time-consuming step to the investigation,” Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said of Columbia’s refusal to assist the investigation voluntarily.
Columbia spokeswoman Diane Dobry refused to answer questions about the delay, issuing a statement that said only: “We are giving the tapes to the police.”
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on a bathroom stall in Lewisohn Hall earlier today, University officials reported. The incident occurred only two days after a noose was found hanging on the door of an African American professor at Teachers College and just over two weeks after Islamophobic graffiti was found in a bathroom stall in the International Affairs Building.And with that, I think we have more than enough evidence for why nobody with common sense should give any contributions to the university. Notice also how that report brings up "Islamophobia" as some kind of a moral equation? The whole phrase practically stems from the same PC-mindset that coined the word "homophobia". It's an utterly stupid leftist notion that needs to be thrown out already.
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Labels: anti-semitism, racism
