Showing posts with label Mireille Miller-Young. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mireille Miller-Young. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Still Not News: UC Prof Who Admitted Destroying Pro-Life Sign Pleads Not Guilty --If a Tea Partier grabbed a sign...

April 08, 2014 Caught On Tape , Mireille Miller-Young 0 Comments

By Tom Blumner, Apr. 8, 2014, Newsbusters.org

On Friday, University of California Feminist Studies Associate Professor Mireille Miller-Young pled not guilty to misdemeanor theft, battery, and vandalism. To bring those who missed the two previous related posts up to speed: A video at the YouTube site of the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust (warning: profanity) shows Miller-Young taking a sign away from a participant in a campus pro-life outreach effort. Accompanied by two students, she took the sign back to her office and destroyed it.

Her attorney entered the not guilty plea on Miller-Young's behalf despite documented admissions to police that, in her words, "I'm stronger so I was able to take the poster," and that she, in the police report's words, "was 'mainly' responsible for the poster's destruction because she was the only one with scissors." Various searches on Ms. Miller-Young's full name indicate that only three local outlets, the Santa Barbara Independent and two others, filed stories on her plea. No one, as far as I can tell, has noted that Miller-Young continues to carry on without sanction as a $125,000-per-year researcher of "black cultural studies" and "pornography and sex work," and that her tweets betray no remorse for her destructive actions.



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Related:  "UC Santa Barbara Professor Assaults Young Pro-Life Activist"



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Saturday, March 22, 2014

"UC Santa Barbara Professor Assaults Young Pro-Life Activist"-NEW UPDATE

March 22, 2014 Eugene Volkh , Joan Short 0 Comments

"Unrepentant Pro-Life Sign-Destroying UC Santa Barbara Prof Indicted--Media Yawns"--1st Amend a.w.o.l.
By Tom Blumer, Mar. 22, 2014, Newsbusters

In another development most of the establishment press, with the usual exception of Fox News and the unusual exception of Reuters, has thus far predictably ignored, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley announced on Friday the indictment of University of California-Santa Barbara Associated Professor Mireille Miller-Young on charges of "theft from a person, battery, and vandalism." The case's first hearing is scheduled for April 4.


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"Theft, Assault & Vandalism Charges Filed Against UC Santa Barbara Professor"--Stole Anti-Abortion Sign.  Free Speech, Anyone?

By Eugene Volkh, Mar. 21, 2014, Washington Post

 The press release from the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office is here. For more on the case, see here. Perhaps the incident will indeed “set a good example for [the professor's] students” (the professor’s views, stated to the police, of what she was doing) — or at least teach them a good lesson — though perhaps not in the way the professor intended.

Source:  www.washingtonpost.com
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By Eugene Volkh, Mar. 20, 2014, Washington Post

The Santa Barbara Independent had a story on this last week, but I’ve just seen the police report (linked from a follow-up story), and it has to be read to be believed. First, a quick summary from the newspaper article:

According to 21-year-old Joan Short — a student at Thomas Aquinas College and a member of the Christian pro-life group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust — she, her 16-year-old sister Thrin, and 11 other Survivors had set up three large signs in an area of campus heavy with foot traffic called the Arbor. The banners, along with literature the activists handed out, displayed graphic imagery of late-term abortions that Joan said was intended to “begin conversations” with passing students.

Joan said that at around 11 a.m., Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies Department — approached the demonstration site and exchanged heated words with the group, taking issue with their pro-life proselytizing and use of disturbing photographs. Joan claimed Miller-Young, accompanied by a few of her students, led the gathering crowd in a chant of “Tear down the sign! Tear down the sign!” before grabbing one of the banners and walking with it across campus.


Joan said she called 9-1-1 and Thrin started filming, and that the pair followed Miller-Young and two of her students … into nearby South Hall. As Miller-Young and the students boarded an elevator, Joan said that Thrin repeatedly blocked the door with her hand and foot and that Miller-Young continually pushed her back. Miller-Young then exited the elevator and tried to yank Thrin away from the door while the students attempted to take her smartphone. “As Thrin tried to get away, the professor’s fingernails left bloody scratches on her arms,” Joan claimed. The struggle ended when Thrin relented, Miller-Young walked off, the students rode up in the elevator, and officers arrived to interview those involved.

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