From victim to suspect
Friday, March 19th, 2004 • Filed under Uncategorized
Kerry Dunn, a California psychology professor, was preparing to give a lecture about racism when her car was vandalized. The words “shut up” were scrawled on it, and it was covered with racist and anti-semitic slurs. But as Scott Norvell points out, it wasn’t really the ‘hate crime’ that she made it out to be.
Police say a California professor’s claim that her car was vandalized in a racially motivated hate crime have turned out to be a hoax, reports the Los Angeles Times.Kerri Dunn, a psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College, was preparing to give a lecture about racism on campus when she claimed someone scrawled the words “shut up” along with racist and anti-semitic slurs. She said she was targeted for her outspokenness about injustice on campus.
Now, police say she vandalized that car herself.
Campus leaders last week had condemned the vandalism as a hate crime, shut down the Claremont consortium of colleges for a day of anti-hate rallies and called in FBI investigators.
Police will likely charge her for filing a false police report, and she could face felony charges of lying to federal investigators. There was no mention of it, but if she also tried to collect insurance damages, she could face fraud charges as well.
Dunn’s supporters claim that even if she did lie about the situation, she still raised awareness about hate crimes. They think the end justified the means. If only we could convince gun grabbers like Sarah Brady to help out their cause by staging their own shooting deaths.