An Ohio jury on Friday slapped Oberlin College with an $11.2 milli🅺on damages penalty for siding with three black students who had cla𝓡imed they were victims of racial profiling after they were caught shoplifting in 2016, a report said.
The liberal arts college must pay the massive compensatory damages award ♛to the family-owned Gibson’s Bakery, where the three students had been arrested for attempting to steal or buy alcohol with a false ID.
The arrests were met with massive prot💫ests by students and faculty at the school.
During the protestsꦓ, the Dean of🌟 Students, Meredith Raimondo, drew up a flyer, claiming Gibson’s had a history of racial profiling,
The flyer also urged students to boycott the bakery, the Chro🍌nicle-Telegram rep🙈orted.
The🤪 students p🌼leaded guilty to the attempted theft in 2017 and admitted in court they were not racially profiled.
The $11.2 mill🐷ion award could triple in a hea♈ring next week on punitive damages, according to the report.