Brickbat: Parking Violation

A Connecticut judge has dismissed three breach-of-peace charges against Lauren Noble, founder and executive director of Yale University's conservative Buckley Institute, after parking attendant Gerno Allen falsely accused her of using racial slurs against him on three occasions in July 2023 at a New Haven parking lot. Noble endured nearly a year of legal battles, spending tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Prosecutors dropped the charges on March 27, 2025, when video evidence contradicted Allen's claims and revealed inconsistencies in his story. That video was available to police since July 2023 but not reviewed for months. "Video evidence that existed from day one fully exonerated me, just as I said from the very beginning," Noble said in a statement. "The fact that it took nearly a year and exorbitant legal fees to get to this outcome is inexcusable."

Comments

[Vernon Depner]

We need a "pigs pay" rule for people who have to defend themselves against false charges.

[Medulla Oblongata]

The process is the punishment.

[SQRLSY]

Sticks and stones,
May break my bones,
Butt butt-hurting words,
Will cost me tens of thousands
of dollars in legal fees.

Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave! Have the Redcoats won after all, after all of these years?

[Quicktown Brix]

Have the Redcoats won after all, after all of these years?

Not at all.

We threw off our British monarchy because we didn't want so much power of one man to impose taxes on us citizen consumers...wait...bad example.

We threw off our British monarchy because we didn't want such a strong central government controling local public affairs...wait... another bad example.

We threw off our British monarchy because we didn't want such centralized government imposing the trade restrictions of the Navigations Act...wait...this too is a bad example.

We threw off our British monarchy because we didn't like the Intolerable Acts (1774), passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, where a central government harshly punished public protests...wait...no...bad example.

We threw off our British monarchy because their soldiers wore those ugly red coats. Green is much better. USA! USA! USA!

[Stupid Government Tricks]

It's ... unsettling ... reading the Declaration of Independence list of grievances.

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

(The FBI, DEA, and all the other federal police are that standing army. Things would be considerably better if the Feds had to rely on local police.)

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Just think how far down the road to serfdom we'd be without the Bill of Rights. That at least had some staying power.

[Rubbish!]

Pretty damn far down even with the bill-o-rites.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Yes, the government employee judges have shown fine impartiality when it comes down to government vs peasant. Sometimes they side with the peasant, but it's a one-way ratchet.

[SQRLSY]

So twat's the deal here anyway? We must spend our days 24-7 under spy cameras (plus audio?), so ass to be able to PROVE that we did SNOT call some poor butt-hurt bastard some nasty names? Guilty till PROVEN innocent? Twat IS the punishment for calling someone a nasty name, anyway? Twat IS the punishment for SNOT being able to PROVE that I didn't do shit?

Can I get Sidney Powell to testify that "she SAW me snot do shit", and get away with such a heinous crime?

[Fist of Etiquette]

...spending tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Sounds like her attorneys fought for every penny.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'A Connecticut judge has dismissed three breach-of-peace charges against Lauren Noble, founder and executive director of Yale University's conservative Buckley Institute, after parking attendant Gerno Allen falsely accused her of using racial slurs against him on three occasions in July 2023 at a New Haven parking lot.'

So, where are the charges--and punishment--against Allen?

[Crackers Boy]

"where are the charges--and punishment--against Allen"

Race is everything. He/she/xir won't be charged.

CB

[mad.casual]

So, where are the charges--and punishment--against Allen?

File a charge of false witness *and* abuse of power under color of law for every "occasion" of the trial separated by more than a 15 min. recess. He was factually incorrect and could've dropped the issue at any time and, apparently, "occasion" can mean whatever any vindictive or activist lawyer wants it to mean.

[jimc5499]

This is hilarious! So Lauren, what would you and your University do about a Student who was accused for the same thing? No right to a lawyer, no right to confront their accuser and a Star Chamber hearing where the Student's guilt is pre-ordained.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Dear Colleague..."

[Bubba Jones]

Send them to El Salvador.

[mad.casual]

on three occasions in July 2023 at a New Haven parking lot

So she called him a racial slur, they left, they both came back, she called him a racial slur, they both left and came back again and she called him a racial slur a third time at three separate meetings in the same place on the same day?

...or she *allegedly* blurted out a string of multiple racial slurs on one occasion and, for some reason, we're *still* going with the prosecution's narrative that it was "three occasions"?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Don't you speak jive?

[AT]

"The fact that it took nearly a year and exorbitant legal fees to get to this outcome is inexcusable."

Now you know why everyone is saying "screw their due process" to the illegals.

[Bloodaxe]

How was this not thrown out immediately on First Amendment grounds?