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Zorro

(15,748 posts)
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 08:21 AM Aug 2019

Student Wins $725,000 in Lawsuit Over 'Troll Storm' Led by The Daily Stormer

The first African-American female student body president of American University won a $725,000 judgment on Friday in a lawsuit against Andrew Anglin, the publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer who incited a racist “troll storm” targeting her, a judge ruled.

This was the third judgment in the past three months against Mr. Anglin. In a separate case on Thursday, a $14 million judgment was rendered against him. He owes a total of nearly $20 million to three people, but they have yet to see a cent in payments.

On the day that the student, Taylor Dumpson, was sworn in as American University’s student body president in May 2017, bananas were found hanging on nooses around campus.

The bananas had messages scrawled on them. One referred to Ms. Dumpson’s predominantly black sorority and another read “HARAMBE BAIT,” a reference to the gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/us/taylor-dumpson.html

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Student Wins $725,000 in Lawsuit Over 'Troll Storm' Led by The Daily Stormer (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2019 OP
I saw this on Rachel malaise Aug 2019 #1
i love reading this type of news JI7 Aug 2019 #2
I'm happy that she won but I doubt she'll ever see the money FakeNoose Aug 2019 #3
Who's laughing now? oasis Aug 2019 #4
I hope that this young day is able to collect this judgment Gothmog Aug 2019 #5
Great news! I'm happy for her! Nt ecstatic Aug 2019 #6

malaise

(269,144 posts)
1. I saw this on Rachel
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 08:47 AM
Aug 2019

and then yesterday when the Con was retweeting shit about the Clintons I wondered why they haven't sued the crazy asses yet.

FakeNoose

(32,706 posts)
3. I'm happy that she won but I doubt she'll ever see the money
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 08:55 AM
Aug 2019

This guy won't stop either, he'll just burrow deeper into the underground. It's a sickness.

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