The Columbia University noose mystery lingers on
The Columbia Spectator student newspaper followed up on the school’s hanging noose mystery (hat tip - reader Danny). Still no news despite an intense police investigation and massive media attention. Yes, it smells:
The New York Police Department’s hate crimes task force continues to investigate the Oct. 9 hate crime at Teachers College but remains without suspects in the incident involving a noose found on an African-American professor’s door.
The incident was the first of a series of bias incidents on campus, including racist graffiti in a Lewisohn Hall bathroom and a swastika on the door of a professor’s office in TC’s department of counseling and clinical psychology, the same department where the noose was found. The victim of the noose incident, professor of psychology and education Madonna Constantine, said previously, “I would like the perpetrator to know that I will not be silenced.”
A test performed on the rope used to form the noose yielded no DNA that could be used to identify the perpetrator.
Furthermore, a review of the security videotapes subpoenaed by Teachers College produced “no valuable information,” confirmed Deputy Inspector Michael Osgood, who heads the investigation. The police subpoenaed the video tapes at TC’s request, as the school could not otherwise hand them over due to privacy concerns.
Osgood insisted that the hate crimes task force will continue to work on the case as long as information resources remain untapped. “We will maintain discipline through the investigative process, we will exhaust all investigative pathways, and whatever that yields … that will yield some result,” he said.
Osgood declined to estimate the amount of time the investigation might continue.
Funny how incurious the administration seems to be about the culprit now that public interest has died down:
Teachers College Student Senate President Michelle Cammarata said that she believes, however, that students have turned their focus away from the investigation of the crime and toward the diversity and community issues highlighted by the incident.
“I think that people were much more interested in the investigation months back when this actually happened. Now, sure if something turned up and they found out who it was, I think people would be interested in it, but I’m not sure anybody is still on the edge of their seat waiting for something to come out of that,” Cammarata said.
What ever happened to “No justice, no peace?” Hmmm?
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Well,like they say…no noose is good noose
It would take less time to find Jack the Ripper than this is taking.Why don’t they just tell the truth,she did it herself.I didn’t want to jump to that conclusion,but no info after this long says”something smells rotten”.
Thanks for the update. Glad you haven’t dropped this.
BTW, any news on the Monks in Burma?
Hmm. Could this be the reason so many liberals plant nooses and paint swastikas around the country? No racism on campus? Let’s invent it!
The only culprit that is going to be found is a liberal.
#3
I’ve been wondering about that horrible crime in Knoxville, TN, too. Where the gang of black men killed a young white couple. Do you have an update on that?
Last I checked I had no expectation of privacy in a public area. This smells.
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There you go trying to be logical and all.
How would you see anything on the video tape if someone cracked the door from the inside and put the noose on the door? If the video has not yeilded any info then I would say that it is literally an inside job, someone had to have knowlege of the area video camera’s could see. So yes I would say that something definatley smell’s at Columbia.
Its not so hard to defeat video cameras. I do it all the time on Xbox. I am sure someone went to the trouble of either disabling or confusing these cameras for the explict purpose of hanging a noose on a door.
(start Mission Impossible theme)
“Teachers College Student Senate President Michelle Cammarata said that she believes, however, that students have turned their focus away from the investigation of the crime and toward the diversity and community issues highlighted by the incident.”
Ah - I suspect here is where we find the REAL agenda - a stronger focus toward diversity and community issues “highlighted by the incident”. No interest right now in who dunnit - but all sorts of interest in a narrowly focused “diversity” issue.
If not for these racial acts on public campuses. Then where would all the liberal, social engineering classes come from.
Lets face facts. There are no conservatives to blame or frame so drop the matter for the general good.
(reeking of sarcasim)
Does Mr. Constantine have an alibi for his wherabouts at the time the noose was hung?
Speaking of not letting things drop - Michelle Malkin, has the “intrepid graduate student” or Ellen Goodman every gotten back to you?
#12 said:
“Mr. Constantine” is actually a Ms., and I never heard a report of her whereabouts, other than the fact that her colleagues called her at home the next morning to inform her of the incident.
The only real statement by the NYPD, 2 days into the investigation, was a statement like, “our victim is definitely a victim.”
I never understood how they deduced that just 2 days into the investigation, when no credible perps were established then or since.