Showing posts with label Campus Safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Campus Safety. Show all posts

August 21, 2015

Updated: New Campus Anti Rape Policies Not Working


Posted August 18, 2015 2:19 AM ET; Last updated August 21, 2015 5:15 PM ET



[From article]
“The cause is good”, she argued. "But it has got to the point of ridiculousness. Verbal consent, every step of the way?”
Hume was equally baffled by the concept of the bill and concurred: “It suggests that the people who are drawing up these now plans for how consent is given have never had any sex!"
Instead, Hume advocated simply keeping male and female students away from each other, because “boys will be boys, guys are pretty lusty, and you needed to be careful when you got them around young women”.
[. . .]
"And there’s a presumption now in these campuses, thanks to the Obama administration, of guilt. There’s a presumption of non-consent.
"And if you are a young man who gets accused, it’s your burden to go in there and prove consent, and we’re getting to the point where you have to have a contract. And if you don’t, you’re gonna be presumed a rapist.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/fox-news-host-meygan-kelly-asks-what-about-mens-rights-after-yesmeansyes-sexual-consent-law-is-signed-in-new-york-10375817.html

Fox News host Meygan Kelly asks 'what about men's rights?' after yes-means-yes sexual consent law is signed in New York
HEATHER SAUL
Thursday 09 July 2015

https://youtu.be/6oqvNp6jmzU





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[From article]
The New York law's victim's bill of rights guarantees students the right to report any incident to campus police or local law enforcement. The law also creates a uniform reporting system to ensure each campus accurately reports cases of sexual violence to the state. Finally, it includes a provision giving students who report sexual violence immunity from any student disciplinary actions relating to alcohol or drugs.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-yes-means-yes-sexual-consent-policy-private-colleges/

CBS/AP
July 7, 2015, 12:00 PM
NY private colleges to adopt "yes means yes" sexual consent policy
Last Updated Jul 7, 2015 3:22 PM EDT

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[From article]
The Examiner goes on to describe an encounter where both parties were drunk and witnesses say the woman initiated sexual contact. But because the woman made the accusation first, the man was truly stuck. He tried to file a counter-claim of the woman not getting consent, but it was dismissed because he had already been accused!
There is no more "he said, she said." There is only "she said it, so it's true." How many young men's lives are going to be ruined by vengeful or mentally unstable women who accuse them of something they didn't do while making it impossible for them to defend themselves?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/big_surprise_yes_means_yes_policies_not_quite_working_out_as_planned.html

August 14, 2015
Big surprise: 'Yes means yes' policies not quite working out as planned
By Rick Moran

June 22, 2015

White House Promotes Globalism and Increased Business For Lawyers





White House is well aware of misguided rape policy it promotes. Administration moves to place all police under federal jurisdiction. No more state and local police departments is the goal. Part of the effort toward globalism, breaking down borders and nations. It is why so many Republicans support the secret trade deal. Globalists are in both parties. Immigration abuses are part of this also. Useful idiot journalists divert attention with fake race and rape statistics most of which are made up by PR flacks. What is shocking is the silence of police agencies and lawyers about this destruction of the legal system. Police, prosecutors and hospitals all have taxpayer funded specially trained investigators of rape. Colleges have none of these. But it does increase potential for more lawsuits by men falsely convicted without Due Process protections. The White House encourages the rule of lawyers replacing the constitution.

[From article]
I have a problem with any organization judging what is clearly a criminal matter and being the judge and jury of someone's guilt or innocence. We are supposed to be a nation of laws, where anyone accused of a crime is innocent until proven guilty. We have all seen, at some point, videos or pictures of someone clearly committing a crime. The MSM is always very careful to refer to the person committing the crime as the "alleged" criminal or perpetrator. Why should institutions of learning be an exception and be able to follow their own arbitrary rules or the rules of any administration in matters of sexual assault, or any other criminal matter? Why should the alleged perpetrator be considered guilty until proven innocent? If there were a shooting on a campus, wouldn't the police be called immediately and the matter be turned over to the judicial system?
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After we rode around for a while, he said he had some records at his room we could listen to in order to kill time. Once we were in his room, he attacked me viciously. I fought and fought, and screamed to the point where I subsequently lost my voice for several days. It was to no avail, as he was considerably stronger than me. When I finally blacked out due to a pillow being pressed on my face, he raped me.
I won't go into all the details of the rape or how I got away, but get away I did, and I ran to my friends, who were waiting for me with the police. When I hadn't turned up at the appointed time, they knew something was wrong and started to search for me. When the police went to his motel room looking for him, they found pieces of the clothes he had ripped off me and chunks of my hair he had torn out.
I was then terrorized for days by phone calls made by him to the motel where I worked, to the point where my employer got someone else to take over my switchboard duties. I also had Ocean City police officers voluntarily driving me each day to work and then back to where I was staying. I was perfectly willing to press charges, but my rapist escaped and returned to his home in Canada, which didn't have extradition for rape.
Sandra Jones appears to be one of a growing number of young women trivializing true rape by crying rape when they get drunk and do something they later regret. By doing so, they ruin young men's lives. These young women should be educated about what sexual assault truly is. Maybe the Obama administration should be educated as well.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/rape_on_campus_guilty_until_proven_innocent.html

June 22, 2015
Rape on Campus: Guilty until Proven Innocent
By Claire Hawks

June 4, 2015

Updated: Misguided Diversity Consultants Create Classroom Chaos, Blame White Privilege


Posted June 2, 2015 8:50 PM ET; Last updated June 4, 2015 8:59 PM ET



[From article]
St. Paul faced a problem with minority violence in its school. What to do? The answer: pay a consultant $3 million to teach about White racism.
[. . .]
PEG says concepts like hard work and planning for the future are traits of “white culture,” and implies that minority students cannot be expected to respond to a curriculum based on those values. They say black culture is more in tune with “collectivism,” presumably the type applied in Cuba or North Korea.
According to PEG, white culture is based on “white individualism” or “white traits” like “rugged individualism,” “adherence to rigid time schedules,” “plan(ning) for the future,” and the idea that “hard work is the key to success.”
[. . .]
You know, if a conservative said that "showing up on time" or "working hard" is a White trait, he'd be branded a racist. But when a leftist group like PEG does it, it somehow becomes progressive. What else would you expect from an ideology which conflates peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with racial identity?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/06/schools_solve_problem_of_minority_violence_by_teaching_about_white_racism.html

June 3, 2015
Schools solve problem of minority violence by teaching about White racism
By Newsmachete
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[From article]
Have the taxpayers of St. Paul spent nearly $3 million over the past five years to bring chaos and danger to their schools and students?
Apparently so.
In 2010, the St. Paul school district began a contractual relationship with the Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco-based organization that tries to help public schools deal with achievement and disciplinary issues involving black students.
PEG packages and sells the concept of victimization, for a very high price.
It claims that the American education system is built around white culture, tradition and social norms – aka “white privilege” – to the unfair detriment of black students.
PEG believes that black students will only achieve if school curricula are customized to meet their cultural specifications. It also rejects the concept of using suspensions or expulsions to discipline black students.
[. . .]
Student suspensions were replaced by “time outs,” and school officials starting forgiving or ignoring violence and other unacceptable behavior, according to various sources.
[. . .]
The result has been general chaos throughout the district, with far too many students out of control because they know there are no real consequences for their actions.
[. . .]
“Last spring, when she stepped into a fight between two basketball players, one grabbed her shoulder and head, throwing her aside,” the CityPages article explained. “The kid was only sent home for a couple of days.
“In March, when a student barged into her class, McQueen happened to be standing in the doorway and got crushed into a shelf. The following week, two boys came storming in, hit a girl in the head, then skipped back out. One of them had already been written up more than 30 times.
“Yet another student who repeatedly drops into her class has hit kids and cursed at an aide, once telling McQueen he would “fry” her ass. She tried to make a joke of it — ‘Ooh, I could use a little weight loss.’ Her students interjected: ‘No, that means he’s gonna kill you.'”
[. . .]
several teachers, who asked to remain anonymous, describe anything but a learning environment. Students run up and down the hallways, slamming lockers and tearing posters off the walls. They hit and swear at each other, upend garbage cans under teachers’ noses.
Nine teachers at Ramsey Middle School have quit since the beginning of this school year. Some left for other districts. Others couldn’t withstand the escalating anarchy.
In mid-April, staff at Battle Creek Elementary penned a letter to their principal over “concerns about building wide safety, both physical and emotional, as well as the deteriorating learning environment.”
[. . .]
Will officials continue to waste taxpayer dollars on an organization that pushes policies that destroy any hope for creating or maintaining a productive learning environment?
As one recently published story on better-ed.org put it, “Given the recent (and probably ongoing) turmoil in St. Paul Public Schools, it’s time to ask questions about Pacific Educational Group.”

http://eagnews.org/teachers-complain-chaos-reigns-as-st-paul-schools-spend-millions-on-white-privilege-training/

Teachers complain, chaos reigns as St. Paul schools spend millions on ‘white privilege’ training
June 2, 2015
STEVE GUNN

March 27, 2015

Male Students In Danger From Campus False Accusations




[From article]
but it’s not just women who have to be careful at college.
As the mother of a young son, I, too, am starting to plan some advice — about the dangers to guys of false accusations of sexual abuse. It’s a real issue, and a scary one.
[. . .]
In fact, men are held to higher standards than women — most notably, by the very women and “feminists” who demand equal treatment between the sexes.
Consider: If a man and woman are both drunk at college, the onus is almost certainly on him to head off any possible sexual interaction between them.
That they are both intoxicated does not matter: If he wakes up the next morning with regrets, her feelings may be hurt — but if she wakes up with regrets, he may soon find himself facing expulsion or maybe even jail.

http://nypost.com/2015/03/26/boys-campus-trap-the-danger-of-false-accusations/

Boys’ campus trap: The danger of false accusations
By Karol Markowicz
New York Post
March 26, 2015 | 7:50pm

November 21, 2014

Colorado University Sex Scandal Reveals Problems With US Educators Impersonating Police and Judges




[From article]
CU-Boulder has essentially declared not only that the accused does not enjoy the presumption of innocence, but that defending the accused's innocence amounts to sexual harassment.  How exactly the accused can receive a fair hearing in such an environment remains a mystery.
At this point it should be pointed out that false rape claims are far more prevalent than people think.  Feminists like to claim that only a negligible number of rape allegations are false (2-8%), but the number of allegations recanted, along with the number of allegations not resulting in charges, indicates a much larger portion.
[. . .]
Whatever problems exist within the legal system, this case illustrates why schools have no business adjudicating sexual assault claims.  Had this case been tried in a court of law, we would be able to assess the charges in light of the evidence.  In the present situation, we have no idea what was alleged, what evidence was presented, or the exact nature of the statute. [. . .]  The effort to adjudicate sexual assault allegations in makeshift tribunals will not end happily.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/colorado_sex_scandal_continues.html

November 21, 2014
Colorado 'Sex Scandal' Continues
By Ben Cohen

November 9, 2014

Tufts University Disputes US Figures on Campus Violence





[From article]
The rapidly rising total poses challenges for the Obama administration as it seeks to lead a national campaign against sexual assault on college campuses. The students whose complaints sparked many of the cases are anxious for federal action, while colleges want to escape a list that puts an unflattering question mark next to their brand name.
[. . .]
Much of OCR’s power stems from its authority to halt federal funding to colleges found to be in violation of the law. But the agency has never taken that step.
Instead, OCR uses the financial threat as leverage to negotiate measures schools will take to improve their sexual violence policies whenever the agency finds shortcomings.
[. . .]
In April, Tufts University rebelled. The prestigious university in Massachusetts had reached an agreement for measures to resolve a long-running OCR investigation. Then, it abruptly revoked its approval, objecting to certain findings that the university failed to comply with the law in its handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints.
Federal officials warned the standoff could lead to an unprecedented cutoff of funding for Tufts. A few weeks later, the university relented and gave renewed approval to the resolution. The episode offered a rare public glimpse of the brinkmanship behind these investigations.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/tally-of-federal-probes-of-colleges-on-sexual-violence-grows-50-percent-since-may/2014/10/19/b253f02e-54aa-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html

Tally of federal probes of colleges on sexual violence grows 50 percent since May
By Nick Anderson
October 19 at 9:21 PM

November 7, 2014

US Dept. Of Education Says Princeton Violates Campus Rules For Crimes




Who has more highly developed informed expertise on criminal justice than college administrators and US Dept. of Education bureaucrats? Specially trained police, prosecutors, and hospital professionals are incompetent compared to the new deciders of criminal liability. Get with the Obama-Holder program. It generates business for underprivileged lawyers.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/11/7/princeton-title-ix-brief/

Princeton Found in Violation of Title IX
By MADELINE R. CONWAY,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
November 6, 2014

October 26, 2014

Black Gangs Attack White Individuals Near College Campuses




[From article]
Over the last two weekends, a group or groups of black men have been roving have been roving the streets and beating people completely at random near the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Police say the beatdowns are consistent with initiations by big-city street gangs — a phenomenon not typically seen on most Big 10 campuses.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/17/black-males-are-viciously-beating-people-at-random-at-the-university-of-illinois/

Gang Of Men Is Viciously Beating People At Random At The University Of Illinois
12:10 AM 10/17/2014
ERIC OWENS

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The violence occurred after a recent homecoming concert. “Police on scene called for back up,” reported Gabrielle Enright of WHIO. “Using the code 99, meaning an officer was in trouble.”
Soon the campus was flooded with more than 60 cops from 28 nearby departments. But even this army of police could not contain the fighting, property destruction, mayhem, chaos, defiance, attacks on police, and gunfire from this large group of black people.
[. . .]
At Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, police say they kind of expect it there too:
In September, a group of 40 in a “black mob went door to door to the white frat houses trying to get into private parties,” said one member of local law enforcement. “They forced their way into the last house, dragged several into the street and beat them. Three white kids were hospitalized. The state’s attorney won’t charge mob action because the white kids tried to fight back.”
[. . .]
Local media’s account of the violence was curiously antiseptic, making it seem this was just some of the usual college hijinks that sometimes get out of hand.
It was not. Nine black people were arrested on various charges of assault.
[. . .]
At the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, local media reported a what seemed like mild encounter following an October football game. A reader of American Thinker filled in the blanks about these shootings at off campus housing in a neighborhood full of students of Notre Dame and Holy Cross College.
“A group of black teenagers (15 and 16 years old) attempted to push their way into the home of a group of students and when they were not allowed in one of the black teens shot one of the students in the head,” he said. “The bullet missed the student's brain by 1/4 inch and he has recovered. Fortunately, one of the students inside the house had a conceal carry permit and he returned fire, shattering the leg of one of the intruders. If he hadn't been carrying, the outcome would have been much worse.”
[. . .]
The local press will not voluntarily disclose what federal law forces the university to do: Release a full description of the predators. This description is from university records connected to the recent four attacks on five people. “In all the cases, the victims described the suspects as a group of black males. The number in the group ranged from 6 to 8.”
College campuses loath reporting the description of people involved in hurting their students. That is because on campuses around the country, the number of black people involved in the violence is astronomically out of proportion.
NIU tries to soften the blow by apologizing for complying with federal law: “Information about the race or ethnicity of alleged offenders is provided only to aid detailed descriptions that include physical stature, clothing or unusual characteristics. Racial descriptions do not, by themselves, offer a meaningful picture of an individual's appearance.”

http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/black_mob_violence_on_campus_soft_targets_everywhere.html

October 23, 2014
Black Mob Violence on Campus: Soft Targets Everywhere
By Colin Flaherty

October 19, 2014

Harvard University Law School Has 28 Professors With Spines





It took them long enough to speak out. There are 28 human faculty members with spines at Harvard University after all. Good for them. But they act after mighty Emerson College responded to a lawsuit saying, "Emerson College claims there is no legal duty for a school to protect others from the criminal or wrongful acts of a third person." The response from Emerson College to federal government bullies, comes after a lawsuit that was filed by a rape victim last month. But Harvard University and all other colleges accept this obligation created by the U.S. Department of Education?

http://www.wcvb.com/news/emerson-college-no-legal-duty-to-prevent-student-from-rape/28399158

Emerson College: No legal duty to prevent student from rape
Rape victim filed lawsuit last month
UPDATED 11:57 PM EDT Oct 03, 2014

[From article]
The authors went on to criticize the University at length for what they said amounted to bowing to the dicta of federal authorities instead of conceiving its own policy.
“Harvard apparently decided to simply defer to the demands of certain federal administrative officials, rather than exercise independent judgment about the kind of sexual harassment policy that would be consistent with law and with the needs of our students and the larger University community,” they wrote.
[. . .]
accusing central administrators of having “undermined and effectively destroyed the individual Schools’ traditional authority to decide discipline for their own students.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/15/law-profs-criticize-new-policy/

Law School Profs Condemn New Sexual Harassment Policy
By MATTHEW Q. CLARIDA
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 15, 2014

October 5, 2014

Email Threats Made To Harvard University Campus




http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20141004/NEWS/141007983

Harvard on alert after email sent to hundreds included shooting threat
Posted Oct. 4, 2014 @ 9:29 am
Updated at 9:40 AM

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[From article]
“HUPD will increase its presence across campus this weekend,” Harvard police said in a statement in response to the threats, which were sent out at 4:45 p.m. by an author who threatened to come to campus today and “shoot the email recipients.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/10/harvard_urges_diligence_after_emailed_death_threats

Harvard urges diligence after emailed death threats
Saturday, October 4, 2014
By: Owen Boss
Boston Herald

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[From article]
In a copy of the racially charged email forwarded to The Crimson, its author claimed that he or she would come to Harvard on Saturday at “11 clock” and “shoot all of you” and “kill you individually.” The email’s time stamp indicates that it was sent at 4:44 p.m. Friday from a “hotmail.de” email address.
At least some Harvard students received a second email with the same text at 4:50 p.m. from a different Google Mail address.
Addressed to “All students at Harvard,” the text of both threatening emails included what appeared to be racist language. The emails referred to their intended recipients as “slit-eyes.” Many, but not all, of the emails’ intended recipients appear to have Asian surnames.
The emails were not anonymous. In the emails, the author or authors self-identified as Stephanie Nguyen and claimed to live in Boston. The address from which the first email was received, however, identified the sender as Eduardo Nguyen. The second identified the sender as Huy Dinh.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/4/email-death-threat-investigation/

Death Threat May Have Originated Outside of U.S., Police Say
Harvard Police To Increase Campus Presence This Weekend
By MADELINE R. CONWAY, THEODORE R. DELWICHE, and ALEXANDER H. PATEL, Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
October 4, 2014
UPDATED: October 4, 2014, at 10:41 a.m.

July 9, 2014

Duke Student Sues University For Deprivation of Rights Under Title IX Compliance Policy



[From article]
both law enforcement agencies investigated the claims and did not pursue criminal action against McLeod.
Duke University’s Office of Student Conduct investigated the matter and found McLeod guilty. He was expelled shortly thereafter.
However, a Durham County Superior Court judge granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday; McLeod should not have been expelled, Judge Osmond III ruled, though the university is not required to immediately give McLeod his degree.
McLeod’s lawsuit states that the University executed a “sloppy investigation” and that the trial “violated Duke University’s own written standards for sexual misconduct and student disciplinary hearings, as well as all notions of fundamental fairness.”
Michael Schoenfeld, Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations at Duke University, told Campus Reform that “[t]he university engages an independent investigator, and permits both the accuser and accused student to present their views about what happened to an experienced conduct board…[w]hen the conduct board finds a student responsible for sexual misconduct, it determines whether expulsion or a lesser penalty would be the appropriate sanction, based on the specific facts of the individual case.”
Durham attorney Kerry Sutton stated that Duke overstepped its authority by investigating a case that should have been reserved solely by a law enforcement agency.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5656

Duke student expelled for sex assault accusations, sues for his diploma

Samantha Reinis
Campus Reform Intern
@samantha_reinis
on Jun 03, 2014 at 12:44 PM EDT
Lewis McLeod was expelled after Duke's Office of Student Conduct found him guilty of sexual assault.
McLeod is an Australian; he can no longer stay in the country as his job was dependent on obtaining a degree.

May 6, 2014

College Students Deserve Lawyers When Charged With Campus Offenses




[From article]
Here is what Joe Cohn, FIRE's Legislative and Policy Director, starkly told those legislators about what is happening to students there charged with "theft, harassment, assault, drug and weapons possession, stalking and rape." Until this bill is passed, Cohn said, students "will continue to be forced to represent themselves -- alone -- against experienced and professionally trained deans, administrators and university attorneys in proceedings that fail to guarantee core components of the rights of due process ...
"The stakes," he continues, "are very, very high; the result of these hearings dramatically change the course of these students' lives ... Some institutions may allow a lawyer to attend the hearing, but prohibit them from participating in the proceedings. Others ban attorneys altogether. The universities, on the other hand, are free to send as many attorneys as they wish to prosecute the student."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff042314.php3#.U2cFLN0--yM

Jewish World Review
April 23, 2014 / 23 Nissan, 5774
Powerful force teaching students the very essence of being Americans
By Nat Hentoff

December 9, 2013

Campus Cop in Texas Shoots Student To Death





[From article]
Neighbour Mohammad Haidaras told My San Antonio that he heard a tense exchange between Redus and Carter sixty seconds before shots rang out.
He told the website: 'I heard (a man) say, 'Oh, you're gonna shoot me?' like sarcastic almost.'
[. . .]
Lieutenant Cindy Pruitt of the Alamo Heights Police Department told KSAT that the incident occurred about 2am in the parking lot of the Tree House apartments in the 100 block of Grandview Place off Broadway, where Redus was a resident.
[. . .]
According to Pruitt, Carter tried to pull him over on Broadway for driving erratically, despite the fact that Redus was off-campus.
[. . .]
University officials describe him as having 'extensive law enforcement background.'
According to records viewed by My San Antonio, Carter has had nine jobs at eight different agencies over his eight-year law enforcement career.
He rarely stayed in any job for more than a year and the two years and seven months as a campus officer for UIW was the longest stint in his career.

Here's what happens when you give guns and badges to half wits who are negligently trained and go wild with their power. It is why police need constant scrutiny. In Mass there is no scrutiny and the police are out of control. After many instances that I saw of Harvard University campus police exercising power contrary to state law, having been negligently trained, I wrote about them and have been relentlessly harassed and provoked and slandered for many years. It shows that my criticism is accurate. If they were trained properly they would not retaliate for criticism and they would recognize their role in this formerly free society. LIke many Harvard University campus cops who abuse their power, this Texas campus cop was not on university property when he took the life of the student. Harvard campus oops share this misguided belief about their limited power. Harvard University egoistic police share this man's misguided belief that they have power everywhere. It comes with the guns and the badges. Problem is that faculty enjoy favors, e.g., having their critics arrested by the Harvard campus cops, from their abusive police, students newspapers print the misguided police propaganda about their powers, and the students blindly follow and obey them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520191/Last-words-Texas-student-Cameron-Redus-shot-dead-college-cop.html

'Oh you're gonna shoot me?' The sarcastic last words of straight-A student shot dead by college cop after being stopped for speeding
University student Cameron Redus, 23, was shot and killed by a campus police officer
According to police, the officer tried to pull Redus over for driving erratically and speeding
The two pulled into the parking lot of Redus' apartment block
Minutes later, Redus was shot 'four to six times' by Carter
Redus was a straight-A student set to graduate in May
Alamo Heights police and Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting
Carter is on administrative leave during the investigation
By ALEX GREIG
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 02:11 EST, 8 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:21 EST, 8 December 2013

October 13, 2013

Ignorant Hate Speech At Harvard University








HUPD (Harvard University Police Department) is out of control. They have little or no oversight. Thugs with guns and badges. If you criticize them they appear at your door with threats and harassment. When I posted comments on the Harvard University student newspaper, The Crimson, web pages under a story about police action responding to noise and misconduct, open container laws and nuisance violations, two of the "readers" attacked me personally calling me names. 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/11/ellison-response-final-clubs/#

Ellison Clarifies Administrative Role in Police Response to Final Clubs
By MICHELLE DENISE L. FERREOL and JARED T. LUCKY,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
October 11, 2013

It is a common event when discussing public issues online. I recently read an article which shows that it is the people who use personal attacks who are usually wrong. You can read it here.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/are-conspiracy-theorists-really-the-sane-ones/

ARE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS REALLY THE SANE ONES?
University study shows they are more well-grounded than others
Gina Loudon
October 6, 2013

I say that when people begin using personal attacks it shows they have no rational arguments, which is the same thing but without the psychological research and mumbo jumbo in the article.

There is another element of when personal attacks appear. It is the first rule of propaganda, which demands discrediting people by using character assassination, another term for personal attacks. It is what was done to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, US Senator Joseph McCarthy, President George W. Bush, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and me among many others. If you read journalism as much as I do you may notice the absence of character assassination of the current president and his misguided appointees. Journalists now use character assassination when they have no rational arguments. The main problem is that few ordinary Americans have experience noticing, and lack the means to understand how to respond to propaganda. I was lucky. When I was 18 or 19 I was very upset with what I read in the papers and went to my college dean and complained about "propaganda" as if there was something he could do about it.




One of the Crimson readers, used "wacko" as his great contribution of hate speech of the day. Another said of me "He's all over the place." with no explanation of what that means. A third said that "He won't respond to the question" about why I thought HUPD was negligently trained. They demanded I teach them in the comments section of a college newspaper. On previous occasions HUPD stopped me after I was taking pictures, in the rear of a Harvard University residential building, of trash, which attracts rodents. It is an ongoing issue discussed for many hours at Cambridge (MA) City Council meetings and committee meetings. The only way to prevent attracting rodents in cities is to keep trash off the streets. Because there are so many visitors to Cambridge there is a lot of food left in the streets. That is what attracts rodents. But also the sloppiness of residents who fail to place trash in containers for collection. In Harvard University residential buildings there are many students who have never lived alone and had to be responsible for their household trash. They leave it in the basement, alongside the receptacles and in general fail to keep the area clean.

I used to take pictures and send them to the building managers at Harvard and to the City inspectional services department. One night two HUPD officers stopped me and a third joined them. They asked me if I was taking pictures behind the buildings. I said I was. They asked why. I explained. They asked me why I did not call them. I explained that it is not a police matter. And even if it was the HUPD did not have jurisdiction. They told me they did have jurisdiction. I told them they were negligently trained, that they did not have the legal authority to enforce city ordinances which is what the inspectional services department does. They were arrogant wise asses as most cops are and said to me "Are you going to teach us?" I said "The University is not paying me to teach you." Same with the response of the readers in October 2013 asking why HUPD is negligently trained still many years after the above incident.

That should have been the end of it. But I declined the opportunity to explain the details in the comments section of the student newspaper. I suggested that the readers who expressed hate speech look up the state statutes which gave HUPD their police powers. That they learn where the property lines are of Harvard University, and then they should apply thought to the information. Well that was apparently a direct threat to the mindless manhood of at least one if not all of the hate-speech-uttering readers one of whom may be a City police employee.

That night as I slept one of the HUPD officers, the worst kind of officer who abuses his authority, arrived at my building which is owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the legal name of the Harvard University corporation. He attacked me severely trying to cause me to have a heart attack or stroke, with electrical weapons possession of which is a felony in Massachusetts. Attempted murder is a felony too. That also is one of many laws which the police refuse to enforce claiming they do not know how. That is another example of negligent training, for another time, in the host city of Harvard University, Lesley University and MIT.



Retaliation for free speech, protected speech under the First Amendment is another felony. Intimidating a person in the free exercise of a constitutionally protected right is a felony in Massachusetts under state law whether or not the offender is a public official. But that law too is ignored in Cambridge and at Harvard University where the campus cops are negligently trained and where laws are optional. Does that explain the relaxed rectitude of Harvard University groomed and educated Governor of Massachusetts and the President of the United States?





Earlier and every day another HUPD employee causes my computer to crash trying to stop my free expression online. That is a federal felony. Each day for the past 17 years while I lived on property owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College the same criminals committed 4 to 40 felonies a day. My complaints to city, to state and to US officials were consistently ignored. The reason is two-fold. First Harvard University officials are not held accountable for their violations of law. In addition they use character assassination (see above minor hate expression in the comments of The Crimson) to discredit me which allows the public officials to ignore me because they believe character assassination. That includes but is not limited to 43 years of "He's crazy." "He's a retired drug dealer." etc., etc., etc.

April 26, 2013

Celebrities at Loeb House Harvard University

Upon reflection, I think the celebrity signing autographs on Quincy Street was Matt Damon. From the photos in the Crimson it looks like the person who was the subject of HUPD overreaching.

Six days after MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was shot and killed in Cambridge MA, local police remain on edge. On Thursday April 25, 2013 I was walking along Quincy Street between Broadway and Harvard Street. A black SUV with Livery license plates stopped to drop off a group of five people. They walked along the narrow sidewalk at about 5:30 PM. One was a Harvard University campus cop.


Harvard University Campus Officer standing guard at Loeb House.

A white SUV with New Hampshire plates stopped on the left side of the street near the Carpenter Center, where parking and stopping is prohibited. There is construction on Quincy Street for the Fogg Museum. Jersey barriers remain in place along part of Quincy Street, restricting traffic flow. Metered parking is allowed on the right side of the one-way street.  

A caucasian man carrying paper was walking toward the group of five. One man in the group was signing autographs for his fans. It may have been Matt Damon who was on campus for an award ceremony. I did not recognize the celebrity. Harvard celebrates the Arts First Festival from Thursday to Sunday April 25-28. The group was on its way to Loeb House at 17 Quincy Street, the former residence of the President of Harvard University. Now it is used for high profile receptions and other gatherings.


A closer view.

The HUPD officer accompanying the celebrity was talking with the man who drove the white SUV parked illegally. Another car with New Hampshire plates was right behind the white SUV. The white SUV driver was trying to get the autograph of the celebrity. The officer wanted the man to move his illegally parked SUV. I heard the HUPD officer say loudly, "Now." I guessed that the two drivers were paparazzi chasing Damon or other celebrities.

Realizing what was happening, I passed into the group within a foot of the celebrity who was carrying a vinyl record album. They were moving slowly to allow the celebrity to sign autographs as he walked toward Loeb House. The driver of the white SUV got into his vehicle and parked it in a legal space. I told him that was a Harvard campus officer, who only had jurisdiction on Harvard property not on the streets. He said he did not notice it was a Harvard cop.


The gate leading to Loeb House at 17 Quincy Street

The car with New Hampshire plates sped by almost hitting me. I wondered why I got involved in this, almost getting myself hit by a car. About five minutes later I saw a car pass by with Massachusetts license plates "News Photographer." I began wondering if I was in a movie again. I saw the news photographer about ten minutes later again. I also saw the car with New Hampshire plates again following closely a black SUV with Livery plates. Maybe he was following Damon to get photos for his business. I realized I got caught up in a paparazzi frenzy, the kind seen on TMZ. It was what allegedly caused the death of Princess Diana. Her driver was trying to lose some of the paparazzi who were following her in Paris one day.


Quincy Street near Loeb House, with a car double parked. This is not of interest to the same Harvard Campus officer. Was he earlier just trying to impress the celebrity with his misguided abuse of power? 

I realized Harvard's campus police remain negligently trained, after 15 years of my petitioning the university administration, the city government and the state office of public safety. So much for citizen initiative in Massachusetts. The above images were captured at about 5:45 PM Thursday April 25, 2013 shortly after the events described herein.

March 28, 2013

White MD Students Want Equal Treatment




[From article]
'We might as well step up and be a part of the solution,' Heimbach said. 'What we see is unfortunately ... every time the offender is a black male usually between 18 and 25.'
A Feb. 28 blog post on the group's website entitled 'Black Crime Wave Continues!' said: 'Every single day black predators prey upon the majority white Towson University student body.'
[. . .]
'They just want to cause trouble,' said Eric Shepperd, 21, a junior who likened the group to the Towson chapter of the Youth for Western Civilization, a national organization opposed to affirmative action and multiculturalism.
[. . .]
The White Student Union has received threatening emails that Heimbach said he would forward to county police.
'I got called at four in the morning to be told someone was coming to kill me and my family,' Heimbach said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299938/Police-guard-university-vigilantes-White-Student-union-pledge-patrol-campus-black-white-attacks.html

Police to patrol university after fears of White Student Union vigilante squads roaming campus over 'black-on-white' attacks
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 09:07 EST, 27 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:16 EST, 27 March 2013

September 27, 2012

Vigilant HUPD Failed To Discover Marijuana Drug Deals On Campus

Was the weekly Farmer's Market for retail marijuana sales at Lowell House a result of the vigilant policing by the HUPD? Were the Campus Cops unaware of this Buy Local retail outlet? 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/9/26/motion-dismiss-cosby-murder/

Harvard Seeks to Dismiss Cosby Civil Suit
By REBECCA D. ROBBINS,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Wednesday, September 26, 2012

March 25, 2012

Male Student Shot Dead on Mississippi St. U. Campus

Three black males are sought for the campus shooting death of a white Mississippi State University student. Will El Presidente Obama express his concern to the parents for the death of this white man?


Photo of victim John Sanderson
John Sanderson, 21, shot to death in dorm at Mississippi State University.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120326/NEWS/120326039/Second-suspect-MSU-shooting-arrested?odyssey=mod%7Cbreaking%7Ctext%7CHome

Second suspect in MSU shooting arrested
11:13 PM, Mar. 26, 2012
Written by
Jerry Mitchell

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Mason Perry Jones, 21, charged with Capital Murder.

http://www.wlbt.com/story/17258901/person-of-interest-in-msu-shootings-caught-at-memphis-bus-station

[Video embedded]
Mason Jones charged with Capital Murder in MSU shooting
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 5:35 PM EDT
Updated: Mar 26, 2012 10:21 PM EDT
By Bert Case

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http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=16252

Mississippi State releases more details on Saturday homicide
Dispatch Staff Report
March 25, 2012 10:37:27 AM

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http://www.starkvilledailynews.com/node/9529

UPDATED: University remains in emergency setting; 10 a.m. press conference scheduled
March 25, 2012
BY CARL SMITH

September 17, 2010

Harvard Campus 3rd Most Dangerous of 50

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x718565416/Cambridges-Harvard-MIT-make-top-50-campus-crime-list

Cambridge's Harvard, MIT make top 50 campus crime list
By Auditi Guha
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Sep 16, 2010 @ 03:55 PM
Last update Sep 16, 2010 @ 04:49 PM