a misdemeanor in August 2017, reading statements into the record that Gibson was within his rights to detain the robber and that the conflict was not racially motivated.

Oberlin College's liability arose because its dean of students, Meredith Raimundo, threw in with the protesters and the college ordered its dining services provider to stop buying from Gibson's. William Jacobson writes on Legal Insurrection:

Meredith Raimondo was held liable on the libel and interference with business relations, but not intentional infliction of emotional distress. By stipulation, the college is responsible for any amounts awarded against her, so she will not pay anything out of pocket (snip) The verdict sends a strong message that colleges and universities cannot simply wind up and set loose student social justice warriors and then wash theirhands of the consequences. In this case, a wholly innocent 5th-generation bakery was falsely accused of being racist and having a history [of] racial profiling after stopping three black Oberlin College students from shoplifting. The students eventually pleaded guilty, but not before large protests and boycotts intended to destroy the bakery and defame the owners. The jury appears to have accepted that Oberlin College facilitated the wrongful conduct against the bakery.

The bigger picture is like many others on the academic left, Oberlin behaved with incredible arrogance toward the locals — hardly a new phenomenon, as the venerable expression "town-gown conflict" reveals. But with the advent of P.C. domination, an added dimension has been added. Jacobson earlier wrote:

I'm still shaking my head at the tone-deafness of the defense in