[surge]

Short of it was that a student was confronted about shop lifting a bottle of wine, two other students with them assaulted the shop owner/employee when they were confronted about it. All the students admitted guilt for the shop lifting of a bottle of wine and the assault. The university still pressed and encouraged the protests saying they were only targeted because of their race. It should be worth mentioning that the bakery has been a family business for over 100 years and at that point a community feature, and the defense argued the multi employee bakery was a business worth only 35k and so therefore, no sizable damage to its reputation was done. The school, with an endowment of 887 million, sent a mass email to the campus and alumni out after the verdict but before the full damages could be determined basically saying the jury were idiots in so many words for ruling against the college and sticking to their guns.

[ryanobjc]

It's all mixed up but when I hear that it was a 100 year family owned business the likely hood it is racist goes way up to me. I can't say for sure but the fact it's some kind of community staple hardly protects it from accusations of racism.

Remember: throwing the book at black shoplifters vs slaps on the wrist for white is definitely a key feature of racism.