Here is from one of the initial reports of the incident:
The Claremont Colleges canceled classes Wednesday in response to a hate crime targeting a psychology professor lecturing about racism.
The victim, identified as a white, Jewish Claremont McKenna professor, found her car spray-painted with racial epithets against blacks and Jews after speaking at a Tuesday night forum on the First Amendment and hate speech.
“A hate crime such as this one is the greatest imaginable affront to everything that we possibly stand for at (Claremont McKenna College),” CMC President Pamela Gann wrote in a letter to students and faculty. “How can we possibly carry on as a teaching and learning community if persons physically threaten property and person in a way that leaves no doubt that it was in response to speech?”
Claremont police Lt. Stan Van Horne called it the worst hate crime incident he has encountered in his 26-year career.
Now back to the present:
“This is like a very big deal if they think I’m a suspect,” Dunn told the newspaper. “I didn’t want any of this from the beginning. This is so overshadowing the bigger problem on campus, which is that the administration has turned its head regularly on hate speech and hate crimes.”
The Times also quoted police sources as saying that Dunn initially claimed $1,700 worth of property, including a CD player and a briefcase, had been stolen from her car, but later told investigators the items had turned up.
I’ve read elsewhere that she may herself be charged with a hate crime, since the intent behind hate-crime laws is to prevent hateful expression. Which goes to illustrate how truly cockeyed hate-crime legislation is.
CBS News has a photograph of the professor so desperate to denounce hate that she attacked herself:
