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It is not enough for family-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, theyâre being targeted by the social justice mafia.
At my alma mater, radical Oberlin College in Ohio (which boasts hapless Baltimore mayor and riotersâ champion Stephanie Rawlings Blake [Email her] and bizarro feminist actress and fake rape accuser Lena Dunham as graduates), the operators of a small-business bakery are under siege by vengeful students and administrators trying to crush them under the wheels of the race-baitersâ bandwagon. The true victim in this latest tale of political correctness run amok is Gibsonâs Bakeryâa quaint shop founded in 1885 that still bakes all its goods using original recipes.
On Nov. 9, according to the city police report I obtained, shop employee Allyn Gibson caught a 19-year-old Oberlin College student allegedly stealing two bottles of wine and hiding them under his shirt. As officers approached the area, Oberlin Police Sgt. (Victor) Ortiz, and Officer (Raymond) Feuerstein both stated they observed Gibson lying on his back with several individuals kneeling over him punching and kicking him with several other individuals in the immediate area. Officers attempted to gain control of the situation and were met several times with resistance from several different individuals.â [Incident Report, PDF]
Allyn Gibson attempted to stop the alleged thief, Jonathan Aladin (Right) from leaving the store and tried to take a photo him as he bolted. Gibson got whacked in the face with his own phone. Aladin then reportedly ran while throwing the two bottles of wine on the floor, becoming âviolentâ and âgrabbing and hitting Allyn.â Aladin ran out with two females who were with him in the store. Gibson followed and tried to detain the alleged shoplifter again on the street.
Gibsonâs right as a shop employee to detain a suspected thief with probable cause until police arrive is protected under Ohio statute. As the females punched and kicked him, police officers who had arrived on scene during the beating wrote:
âAllyn had several abrasions and minor injuries including what appeared to be a swollen lip, abrasions to his arms and wrists and a small cut on his neck.â
Aladin was charged with robbery and inflicting harm and faces a court hearing in the case this week. The two females, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, were charged with assault.
You can guess what happened next. Aladin, who is black, became the new poster boy of institutional racism and oppression. Students organized protests and shrieked about âracial profiling,â claiming that the bakery had a history of discriminating against customers âof color.â
It gets worse. Leading the charge in the latest War on Small-Biz Bakeries is the Oberlin College dean of students,Meredith Raimondo (Email her) who joined the baying mob in bullying the Gibson family. She disseminated flyers libelously asserting that Gibsonâs is a âracist establishment with a long account of racial profiling and discrimination.â Convicted in the crazy Oberlin College court of public opinion, the school refused to renew its longstanding daily order of donuts and bagels. For a small business with razor-thin margins, losing that order could be devastating.
Never mind that the âracismâ charge is a brazen lie. As the police department pointed out, since 2011, there had been four robberies at the store including Aladin, âand he was the only black person. There were 40 adults arrested for shoplifting in five years, and 32 were white. There were six adult black suspects arrested and two Asians, and 33 of the 40 were college students.â
And never mind that Trey James, a Gibsonâs employee who is himself black, bluntly told the student newspaper that race had nothing to do with the incident. âIf youâre caught shoplifting, youâre going to end up getting arrested,â he told the Oberlin Review. âWhen you steal from the store, it doesnât matter what color you are. You can be purple, blue, green, if you steal, you get caught, you get arrested.â
Never mind, either, that Oberlin is ground zero in fake hate crime claimsâfrom the notorious 2013 sighting of a âKKK robe-wearingâ menace on campus who turned out to be a female student wearing a blanket to Lena Dunhamâs disgraceful attempt to blame a college Republican for sexually assaulting her. She retracted the story after Breitbart.com blogger John Nolte and others in new media exposed the hoax.
Back in the 1990s, Asian-American students claimed that a phantom racist had spray-painted anti-Asian racial epithets on a campus landmark rock. It turned out that it was a warped Asian-American student who perpetrated the dirty deed. During my time there, a black student accused the elder Mr. Gibson of racism after he told the student she was not allowed to sit at an outside table because she hadnât purchased any items from his store.
Ohio talk radio host Bob Frantz, who has rallied sane, decent and hard-working members of the community to support the Gibson family, told me a Facebook page supporting the bakery had been censored by Facebook. (No surprise: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a fervent, damn-the-facts supporter of Black Lives Matter.)
It is time for real justice to prevail over truth-sabotaging, violence-stoking, thug-coddling social justice. If you are not actively fighting the mob, youâre enabling it.
Michelle Malkin
http://www.vdare.com/articles/white-owned-business-a-new-victim-in-the-war-on-small-biz-bakeries
It is not enough for family-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, theyâre being targeted by the social justice mafia.
On Nov. 9, according to the city police report I obtained, shop employee Allyn Gibson caught a 19-year-old Oberlin College student allegedly stealing two bottles of wine and hiding them under his shirt. As officers approached the area, Oberlin Police Sgt. (Victor) Ortiz, and Officer (Raymond) Feuerstein both stated they observed Gibson lying on his back with several individuals kneeling over him punching and kicking him with several other individuals in the immediate area. Officers attempted to gain control of the situation and were met several times with resistance from several different individuals.â [Incident Report, PDF]
Gibsonâs right as a shop employee to detain a suspected thief with probable cause until police arrive is protected under Ohio statute. As the females punched and kicked him, police officers who had arrived on scene during the beating wrote:
âAllyn had several abrasions and minor injuries including what appeared to be a swollen lip, abrasions to his arms and wrists and a small cut on his neck.â
Aladin was charged with robbery and inflicting harm and faces a court hearing in the case this week. The two females, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, were charged with assault.
You can guess what happened next. Aladin, who is black, became the new poster boy of institutional racism and oppression. Students organized protests and shrieked about âracial profiling,â claiming that the bakery had a history of discriminating against customers âof color.â
Never mind that the âracismâ charge is a brazen lie. As the police department pointed out, since 2011, there had been four robberies at the store including Aladin, âand he was the only black person. There were 40 adults arrested for shoplifting in five years, and 32 were white. There were six adult black suspects arrested and two Asians, and 33 of the 40 were college students.â
And never mind that Trey James, a Gibsonâs employee who is himself black, bluntly told the student newspaper that race had nothing to do with the incident. âIf youâre caught shoplifting, youâre going to end up getting arrested,â he told the Oberlin Review. âWhen you steal from the store, it doesnât matter what color you are. You can be purple, blue, green, if you steal, you get caught, you get arrested.â
Never mind, either, that Oberlin is ground zero in fake hate crime claimsâfrom the notorious 2013 sighting of a âKKK robe-wearingâ menace on campus who turned out to be a female student wearing a blanket to Lena Dunhamâs disgraceful attempt to blame a college Republican for sexually assaulting her. She retracted the story after Breitbart.com blogger John Nolte and others in new media exposed the hoax.
Back in the 1990s, Asian-American students claimed that a phantom racist had spray-painted anti-Asian racial epithets on a campus landmark rock. It turned out that it was a warped Asian-American student who perpetrated the dirty deed. During my time there, a black student accused the elder Mr. Gibson of racism after he told the student she was not allowed to sit at an outside table because she hadnât purchased any items from his store.
Ohio talk radio host Bob Frantz, who has rallied sane, decent and hard-working members of the community to support the Gibson family, told me a Facebook page supporting the bakery had been censored by Facebook. (No surprise: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a fervent, damn-the-facts supporter of Black Lives Matter.)
It is time for real justice to prevail over truth-sabotaging, violence-stoking, thug-coddling social justice. If you are not actively fighting the mob, youâre enabling it.
Michelle Malkin
http://www.vdare.com/articles/white-owned-business-a-new-victim-in-the-war-on-small-biz-bakeries
