Ohio State's make-work center demotes Yale Law dipshit after lying to police about viral Nutty Professor assault
Professor Christopher Greene, an expert in "protection against violence," is no longer the Associate Director at the Salmon P. Chase Center after his colleague viciously attacked a documentarian.
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In February, The Rooster showed the world what The Ohio State University’s make-work “intellectual diversity center” meant in practice.
Legislatively mandated into existence by surly rural grandfathers angry that fictitious blue-haired Marxists sparked their alienation from their grandchildren, the Salmon P. Chase Center is a little more than a home for lightweight conservative thinkers who couldn’t find employment in any legitimate political science department in the country.
Assistant Professor Luke Perez threw away a $102K salary and a tenure-tracked position when he assaulted local documentarian Mike Newman for the high crime of wanting to ask Vice President E. Gordon Gee a single question about student loan debt.
Perez earned that position despite publishing no legitimate peer-reviewed research and previously working at Arizona State’s make-work conservative “intellectual diversity center,” which was originally funded by the Koch Brothers before the Grand Canyon State’s surly legislative grandfathers subsidized the department with millions of taxpayers’ dollars.
Professor Christopher Green, a Yale Law graduate and then-Associate Director of the Salmon P. Chase Center, almost seemed intent on telling Perez to “hold his (figurative) beer” while trying to outdo his colleague in bringing international opprobrium upon Ohio’s flagship university in a series of bizarre events.
It was surreal watching Green—who, apparently, had taken Criminal Law at Yale—repeatedly claiming he had been “assaulted” while obstructing me from boarding a public elevator, a space to which I was entitled as much as Gee.
At some point after Perez’s infamous assault, Ohio State removed the “Associate Director” title from Green’s official university profile:
While Green’s immediate behavior after witnessing his colleague viciously assaulting a cameraman was embarrassing enough, it’s more likely Green’s demotion has to do with his lying to university police about what transpired on that fateful night in Smith Laboratory.
You can view the entire body camera footage dump here.
The long version: Professor Green paints his colleagues as the victims, while falsely portarying the actual victim as a gun-toting crackpot
When police arrived, Vice President Gee and Assistant Professor Perez had already fled the scene for entirely different reasons.
That left Director Strang and Professor Green to do the explaining, with Green carrying the load as he witnessed the entire affair from start to finish.
Strang only appeared after the assault, but that didn’t stop him from calling the campus emergency line to report two shady suspects for “aggressively touching” Gee:
Green painted The Rooster as “not entirely well” while also fabricating a claim that Newman kept “touching his hip as if he were carrying a weapon,” which could have led to fatal results if the police stumbled upon us in the wild before we arrived at their headquarters.
It’s unclear if Green realized he was being recorded, but it’s another textbook example of how comfortable (usually white) people with prestigious jobs are with using their credibility to lie to the police against two perceived lower-class individuals.
But it also might explain why Green feels that an “intellectual slanted process of faculty selection” violates students’ rights in the same way that “racially biased process of jury selection violates a defendant’s rights to a fair trial.”
At the 12:20 mark in the video, Green speculates that we could return to “pepper them with questions on the way to their car,” but that we might have realized he and Strang were “too cool-headed” to be worth the trouble.
Short version: Chris Green blames the victim for a criminal assault
Professor Green and I had front-row seats to Perez’s vicious assault that would all but end his career in academia.
Yet Green was intentionally dishonest about what happened from start to finish.
Yes, Perez told us he didn’t want to be filmed when Gee was still in the restroom.
But as a Yale-educated lawyer, Green should at least know that Ohio is a one-party consent state, meaning that no one in a public hallway has an expectation of privacy.
I specifically told him that we were there for Gordon, and Newman correctly told Perez that we had no idea who he was.
Perez probably wouldn’t be on the way to the bread lines if he had left the scene. Instead, he chose to act as if Ohio State had hired him to be Gee’s enforcer.
Meanwhile, back in reality…
Professor Green lied about the events before, during, and after the assault.
Green couldn’t even tell the police whether Newman or the “rather tall fellow” was the one in the altercation, only relaying that “one of the fellows pushes up in to [Perez]” who was “very carefully not doing anything.”
Green chuckled after telling police that Perez had “push[ed] back with vigor.”
Green then lied to police about Newman (or me?) obstructing Gee’s enoutrage from returning to the classroom before trying to jar the door open.
You can see the immediate aftermath here. At no point do either of us obstruct the Ohio State employees from entering the classrom or try to jar the door open:
You almost have to admire the gaslighting, with Strang pretending to take notes as if he and Green didn’t spend time getting their stories straight before calling campus police.
But in their defense, they might have gotten away with it if this were a case of the illustrious Salmon P. Chase Center vs. a low-rent pervert and a cameraman “with many aliases.”
Unfortunately for them, three cameras were rolling the entire time. And while they probably expected us to abscond to the nearest unlit alley to smoke crack and chuckle to ourselves, we went directly to the university police department with our footage.
The protagonists enter the crucible
The responding officers probably thought they had an open and shut case against two crazed criminals, who they wanted for disorderly conduct (read: insulting and taunting), trespassing and assault, as the campus crime log later showed:
While Newman and I went to police headquarters to file an open-and-shut assault case (of which local prosecutors would later concur), it became apparent that the police had been wildly misled about the series of events.
If we had not had the cameras rolling, I have no doubt that we would have been arrested on the spot and jailed.
That might even have been the case if I hadn’t turned my camera back on and caught the third-person view of the assault, which proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Perez inserted himself into Newman’s path and launched his assault after Newman had stepped back—while holding a camera and microphone in each hand.
Considering it would be a disservice to university students if Strang and Green weren’t employed in the conservative make-work center mandated by the state legislature, it’s telling that they have to outright bribe students to generate interest in the oh-so-important work of intellectual titans:
The Rooster will have more as this story develops.
