Thursday, March 18, 2004
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Calif. Professor Suspected of Vandalism
Wed Mar 17,11:49 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!
CLAREMONT, Calif. - A professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that stirred student protests at the Claremont colleges is suspected of staging the vandalism herself, police said Wednesday.
Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on March 9, leading faculty to cancel classes and students to stage rallies the following day.
Two witnesses interviewed by police investigators allegedly saw Dunn, a visiting professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College, commit the vandalism, police said in a statement.
Dunn also gave inconsistent statements during two interviews conducted jointly by the Claremont Police Department and the FBI (news - web sites), said police Lt. Stan Van Horn.
Police will forward their findings to the district attorney's office Thursday, Van Horn said. One charge that could result, he said, is a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report.
Dunn could not immediately be reached for comment. She was not taken into police custody.
Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said she had no comment because prosecutors have not received the case.
The consortium of seven independent institutions includes undergraduate colleges Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Pomona College and Scripps College, as well as the Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences.
Claremont is about 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
Calif. Professor Suspected of Vandalism
Wed Mar 17,11:49 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!
CLAREMONT, Calif. - A professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that stirred student protests at the Claremont colleges is suspected of staging the vandalism herself, police said Wednesday.
Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on March 9, leading faculty to cancel classes and students to stage rallies the following day.
Two witnesses interviewed by police investigators allegedly saw Dunn, a visiting professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College, commit the vandalism, police said in a statement.
Dunn also gave inconsistent statements during two interviews conducted jointly by the Claremont Police Department and the FBI (news - web sites), said police Lt. Stan Van Horn.
Police will forward their findings to the district attorney's office Thursday, Van Horn said. One charge that could result, he said, is a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report.
Dunn could not immediately be reached for comment. She was not taken into police custody.
Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said she had no comment because prosecutors have not received the case.
The consortium of seven independent institutions includes undergraduate colleges Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Pomona College and Scripps College, as well as the Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences.
Claremont is about 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
