Bodycam footage from a few minutes later shows Mr. Aladin asking an Oberlin police officer why he and his friends, who were also black, were being arrested and not Mr. Gibson. “Well,” the officer responds reasonably, “when we got here, you all were on top of him, whaling on him.”
Oberlin stopped doing business with the bakery, and the school Senate was allowed to issue a statement saying, “a Black student was chased and assaulted at Gibson’s after being accused of stealing… Gibson’s has a history of racial profiling and discriminatory treatment of students and residents alike.”
Dean Raimondo and her colleagues whipped up student anger, helped organize protests in front of the store, tried to destroy Gibson’s through formal and informal boycotts, and ruthlessly defamed the family as racist in speech and print.
As Assistant Dean of Students Antoinette Myerstexted Ms. Raimondo from the criminal trial where Mr. Aladin and his friends pleaded guilty to attempted theft, aggravated trespassing and underage purchase of alcohol: “I hope we rain fire and brimstone on that store.” All three defendants read statements in court acknowledging that they hadn’t been targeted for their race.
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