For those of you unfamiliar with recent event at two separate universities, allow me to fill you in briefly. Earlier this week at George Washington University, hundreds of flyers were plastered across the campus which read “Hate Muslims? So do we!! The flyers indicated they were printed by the GWU Young America’s Foundation. The smaller print on the bottom of the flier indicated the very real possibility that the flyers were not genuine, although that was ignored by many officials as they cried racism and bigotry. Days later a far left group confessed to printing the fliers in an effort to “expose Islamaphobic racism”. For obvious reasons the media has not covered the leftist confessions with anywhere near the same publicity nor condemnation as they covered the initial story when they ignorantly believed the fliers were the work of a conservative group.

Tuesday at Columbia University a noose was found hanging on the door of a black professor, with similar cries of racism and bigotry coming from school officials and the media elite. Today we learn that Columbia University has footage from a security camera which could help identify who placed the noose there. Only one problem, they refuse to hand the tape over to the police (whom they called to investigate).

Columbia University has refused to turn over security videotape that could help identify who hung a noose on a black professor’s office door, police said Thursday.

Investigators began asking on Wednesday for tapes from cameras in the building, but have been rebuffed by administrators, said Paul Browne, the New York Police Department’s top spokesman.

He said police will have to get a court order to force the school to provide video they believe could crack the case.

“It’s unfortunate because it adds a time-consuming step to the investigation,” Browne said.

A Columbia spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Authorities were testing the 4-foot-long twine noose for DNA evidence, but had no suspects as of Thursday morning.

On Wednesday, the professor who was the target of the attack, Madonna Constantine, told hundreds of faculty and students at a rally on the Ivy League campus that the incident was a “blatant act of racism” that “reeks of cowardice and fear.”

“I’m upset that our community has been exposed to such an unbelievably vile incident,” she said.

Police believe the noose was placed on the doorknob of Constantine’s office at Teachers College—Columbia’s graduate school of education—Tuesday morning, when a colleague spotted it and notified authorities. (emphasis mine)

Michelle Malkin asks the correct question, Why won’t Columbia University release the noose security video?

If this incident does indeed turn out to be the work of a racist student or faculty member with the intent on harassing this professor, I would certainly expect Columbia University to expel, or fire that individual. On the flip side of that coin however, I would also expect them to take the same action if it turns out to be another hoax perpetrated by someone trying to “raise awareness about racism in America”.

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