Barry University Prof Files Charges Against Student Who Worked With James O’Keefe
The student had already been suspended. Now there’s a criminal complaint.
From WPLG News.
Barry University professor files criminal complaint against student
The suspended Barry University student who taped undercover footage portraying professors as ISIS supporters is now named in a criminal complaint.
Florida’s law against recording conversation without knowledge or consent is the basis for the police report filed with the Miami Shores Police Department by one of the professors seen and heard in the video made public by the organization “Project Veritas” last week.
The complaint states that Barry University communications senior Laura Loomer “secretly videotaped and recorded their conversation without his knowledge and consent,” and did the same to at least two others on staff.
The head of the organization confirmed to Local 10 News last week that Loomer did not inform the school staffers that she was recording the video and conversations that appear in the video.
The professor reported to police that when he learned about the recording, he told Loomer “… any audio or video recorded without permission cannot be used.”
On March 31, “Project Veritas” released a 9-minute video edited and narrated to make it appear the faculty members seen and heard in the video support ISIS.
Barry University professor files criminal complaint against student (WPLG)
Comments
Two things about this that I find disturbing:
1) Our policing is becoming increasingly a tool of political will – if this professor had caught a bunch of racists whites being, well, racist, there would be howls of indignation and experts on free speech etc.
2) With the increasing legal / academic assault on male sexuality, one of the often suggested remedies is for males to record the encounter to ensure their own legal safety – for which, if it was produced, I have no doubt, they’d face both civil, academic, and criminal charges.
A big however here – a woman who recorded a session, that later proved a man raped her would likely (read: never) face civil, academic, or criminal charges
Edited to add from above:
Did say:
“A big however here – a woman who recorded a session, that later proved a man raped her would likely (read: never) face civil, academic, or criminal charges”
Should say:
“A big however here – a woman who recorded a session, that later proved a man raped her would likely *NOT* (read: never) face civil, academic, or criminal charges
Litigation.