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10000	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable In one glaring example, at least 20 people, many of them academics from various states and schools, said they were harassed, threatened, called racial slurs, and stalked by an individual who apparently has also threatened to throw acid, chop off hands, murder...
10001	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable In one glaring example, at least 20 people, many of them academics from various states and schools, said they were harassed, threatened, called racial slurs, and stalked by an individual who apparently has also threatened to throw acid, chop off hands, murder...
10002	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “We know that being openly queer, not white, a woman, among many other social positions can set one up for excess surveillance, for questioning,” tweeted one of the academics who said she was stalked, Shantel Buggs, an assistant professor at Florida State Uni...
10003	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sociologist Victor Ray, an associate professor at the University of Iowa, tweeted about his experience and said he was stalked by the same individual. This person “has harassed me and my family—including death threats and lying about my background—for years,”...
10004	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable This person “has harassed me and my family—including death threats and lying about my background—for years,” Ray wrote. “When I didn’t respond to threats, they targeted my family.” He added: “They target marginalized scholars because marginalization makes sup...
10005	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “When I didn’t respond to threats, they targeted my family.” He added: “They target marginalized scholars because marginalization makes support more difficult and isolates their targets. I’m talking about this now because ignoring it hasn’t worked. They are c...
10006	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable It has empowered victims of harassment and sexual violence but has also weakened due process. “An accusation against someone the systems we all live within already disadvantages,” wrote Buggs, “can be ruinous.” Loading . . . inhaSinha became obsessive. Not ...
10007	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “An accusation against someone the systems we all live within already disadvantages,” wrote Buggs, “can be ruinous.” Loading . . . inhaSinha became obsessive. Not a week went by without him routinely checking tweets at night and again as soon as he woke up....
10008	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable . . inhaSinha became obsessive. Not a week went by without him routinely checking tweets at night and again as soon as he woke up. “It has just become part of the rhythm of my day,” he told me. “I’ll be waiting at the bus stop for my kids to get off the bus,...
10009	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “It has just become part of the rhythm of my day,” he told me. “I’ll be waiting at the bus stop for my kids to get off the bus, and I’ll be like, ‘Okay, let me take out my phone and take screenshots.’ Or I’m at the airport waiting for my flight or at a restau...
10010	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “I’ll be waiting at the bus stop for my kids to get off the bus, and I’ll be like, ‘Okay, let me take out my phone and take screenshots.’ Or I’m at the airport waiting for my flight or at a restaurant waiting to pick up my food.” He captured the images for le...
10011	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “On one level, it has become so ordinary, just part of my day, to read her outrageous, racist views. But at the same time, it never stops being outrageous,” he said. Sinha pulled back from using social media himself. He rarely tweeted anymore. Though S. had n...
10012	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But at the same time, it never stops being outrageous,” he said. Sinha pulled back from using social media himself. He rarely tweeted anymore. Though S. had never acted on any of her outlandish threats, Sinha had no idea what she was capable of. What if the o...
10013	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sinha pulled back from using social media himself. He rarely tweeted anymore. Though S. had never acted on any of her outlandish threats, Sinha had no idea what she was capable of. What if the online trail led her to act on the threats? Sinha told himself he ...
10014	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable What if the online trail led her to act on the threats? Sinha told himself he had a family to protect. “If I didn’t see it, and I didn’t prepare, and something happened,” Sinha told me, “I would never forgive myself.” At one point, Sinha read a tweet that sug...
10015	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable What if the online trail led her to act on the threats? Sinha told himself he had a family to protect. “If I didn’t see it, and I didn’t prepare, and something happened,” Sinha told me, “I would never forgive myself.” At one point, Sinha read a tweet that sug...
10016	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable The comments described seeing them in a specific spot where the couple often took walks together. Over and over, Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan filed complaints with Twitter for online abuse. At first, according to Sinha, the company responded that S. had not vi...
10017	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable At first, according to Sinha, the company responded that S. had not violated Twitter policies. Tan’s husband was especially persistent in filing complaints. One of S.’s accounts would get banned, but then another under a new handle popped up in its place. The...
10018	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Tan’s husband was especially persistent in filing complaints. One of S.’s accounts would get banned, but then another under a new handle popped up in its place. The pattern repeated. The tweets kept coming, sometimes trickling over to other professors online....
10019	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable The pattern repeated. The tweets kept coming, sometimes trickling over to other professors online. Sinha took a screenshot of a tweet from S. on November 9th, 2022 — this time made to an Asian American assistant professor of sociology who was then at the Univ...
10020	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sinha took a screenshot of a tweet from S. on November 9th, 2022 — this time made to an Asian American assistant professor of sociology who was then at the University of Chicago and who Tan follows on Twitter. It read: “Hey can you stop stalking and sexually ...
10021	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable It read: “Hey can you stop stalking and sexually harassing me on Twitter.” A similar tweet from the same account showed up on the page of an Asian American astrophysicist, who Tan also follows on Twitter: “Hey l’ve noticed your being really abusive to women y...
10022	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable It read: “Hey can you stop stalking and sexually harassing me on Twitter.” A similar tweet from the same account showed up on the page of an Asian American astrophysicist, who Tan also follows on Twitter: “Hey l’ve noticed your being really abusive to women y...
10023	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sinha texted the professor. He felt duty bound to warn him. “There’s a chance she’s going to engage in some hostile way.” Any colleague, collaborator, or friend that entered Sinha’s orbit risked being targeted by S. Sinha continued to capture more of the twee...
10024	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable This time, S. was making explicit threats to contact Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan’s universities. Southern Connecticut State University officials and police had already dealt with S. before, and there were receipts to prove it. Strangely, S. had even posted on...
10025	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable This time, S. was making explicit threats to contact Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan’s universities. Southern Connecticut State University officials and police had already dealt with S. before, and there were receipts to prove it. Strangely, S. had even posted on...
10026	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Strangely, S. had even posted on social media an email she had received from Detective William S. Rivera from Southern Connecticut State University Police, along with his phone number. But officials at Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan’s new institutions did not ha...
10027	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But officials at Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan’s new institutions did not have a long history or record of all the issues they had dealt with in the past. The burden of evidence — to alert new or prospective employers or to warn colleagues and social media frie...
10028	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But officials at Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan’s new institutions did not have a long history or record of all the issues they had dealt with in the past. The burden of evidence — to alert new or prospective employers or to warn colleagues and social media frie...
10029	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable The burden of evidence — to alert new or prospective employers or to warn colleagues and social media friends about their potential stalker — would fall on them for as long as S. is allowed to keep stalking and harassing. “I don’t want to upset my employer,” ...
10030	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable It makes Sinha anxious. “This has been hanging around my neck now for a while,” he said. Sinha knows he has to be proactive from now on. “I should get out in front of it.” At this point, the tweets were coming by the minute, this time from the account @janedo...
10031	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable It makes Sinha anxious. “This has been hanging around my neck now for a while,” he said. Sinha knows he has to be proactive from now on. “I should get out in front of it.” At this point, the tweets were coming by the minute, this time from the account @janedo...
10032	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sinha knows he has to be proactive from now on. “I should get out in front of it.” At this point, the tweets were coming by the minute, this time from the account @janedoepow: ”I want to report them to their schools for online sexual abuse and harassment. I’m...
10033	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I’m thinking about emailing the schools.” “And when they get confronted by their employers they’re going to get so anxious and start making up excuses to try to cover their asses and we’ll all see the kind of person they are.” “Time to start praying the unive...
10034	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable He also alerted Tan. All three of them would need to notify their department chairs and administrations at Hofstra, George Mason, and Vassar about S. and any potential false allegations that may be headed their way. The internet has amplified so much of this...
10035	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable He also alerted Tan. All three of them would need to notify their department chairs and administrations at Hofstra, George Mason, and Vassar about S. and any potential false allegations that may be headed their way. The internet has amplified so much of this...
10036	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable The internet has amplified so much of this behavior, making it easier for someone to become a stalker and easier for anyone to be stalked. tIt turned out Twitter was not the only place where S. was writing. Comments extended to Instagram and Facebook, where ...
10037	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Comments extended to Instagram and Facebook, where some of S.’s friends supported her online, commenting or liking her posts. On February 23rd, 2020, S. wrote on Facebook: “I filed a report that I was being harassed, stalked, defamed and studied by my profess...
10038	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable On February 23rd, 2020, S. wrote on Facebook: “I filed a report that I was being harassed, stalked, defamed and studied by my professor and all I got was a joke of an investigation and this stupid legal warning.” She continued: “The university is gaslighting ...
10039	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Most of the officials I dealt with did NOT follow proper Title IX policy procedure throughout the process and has consequently made my experience much worse.” S. also posted the cease and desist letter that had been sent to her. She received a response to the...
10040	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable She received a response to the post from a graduate student at Rutgers University School of Social Work who specializes in violence against women and children and founded a Students Against Sexual Violence club on her campus: “I work for an organization calle...
10041	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable We do work around Title IX and I’ve gone through the Title IX process at my school as well. I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this treatment from your school.” One Twitter post showed a screenshot of a conversation with someone who appeared to be a friend of S...
10042	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this treatment from your school.” One Twitter post showed a screenshot of a conversation with someone who appeared to be a friend of S.’s and seemed concerned: “I don’t know if I’m being too blunt but I promise I’m saying this...
10043	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I think your mind is playing tricks on you…And it’s not like I think you’re crazy because when I spend time with you you’re totally normal and you’re you. But specifically this ordeal seems crazy. It worries me… I honestly don’t see what you’re talking about....
10044	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But specifically this ordeal seems crazy. It worries me… I honestly don’t see what you’re talking about. All I see is mundane posts.” By November 2022, just as Sinha had predicted after monitoring her tweet storm, S.’s letters arrived at the Title IX offices ...
10045	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable All I see is mundane posts.” By November 2022, just as Sinha had predicted after monitoring her tweet storm, S.’s letters arrived at the Title IX offices of Vassar and George Mason, though Sinha’s campus, Hofstra, did not receive anything, as far as he knows....
10046	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Ever since Tan warned Vassar about S. earlier that spring, school officials had blocked her email in the system. Still, Tan had reached out to her department head and the campus investigator again: “You might get something from her in the next couple of days....
10047	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Ever since Tan warned Vassar about S. earlier that spring, school officials had blocked her email in the system. Still, Tan had reached out to her department head and the campus investigator again: “You might get something from her in the next couple of days....
10048	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Tan, who received a copy of the email, explained: “She wrote this long letter accusing me of sexually harassing her, forcing her to be a lesbian.” S. signed with her full name. A similar email also arrived at the Title IX office of George Mason University: “M...
10049	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Tan, who received a copy of the email, explained: “She wrote this long letter accusing me of sexually harassing her, forcing her to be a lesbian.” S. signed with her full name. A similar email also arrived at the Title IX office of George Mason University: “M...
10050	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable A similar email also arrived at the Title IX office of George Mason University: “My name is [S.] and I’m not a student nor have I ever been one at George Mason. I’m writing to you today regarding one of your employees, Janani Umamaheswar of criminology, at th...
10051	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable and I’m not a student nor have I ever been one at George Mason. I’m writing to you today regarding one of your employees, Janani Umamaheswar of criminology, at the university and their sexually harassing behavior towards me online on twitter.” The letter cont...
10052	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I’m writing to you today regarding one of your employees, Janani Umamaheswar of criminology, at the university and their sexually harassing behavior towards me online on twitter.” The letter continued: “She has called me a lesbian, and has recommended that I ...
10053	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But all three professors also know the potential threats reach beyond their campuses. The internet has amplified so much of this behavior, making it easier for someone to become a stalker and easier for anyone to be stalked. orFor Catherine Tan, this experie...
10054	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable orFor Catherine Tan, this experience of being, in a sense, a collateral victim of a cyberstalker who started out obsessed with someone else went from irritating to infuriating. Sometimes, the racial taunting especially hits a nerve. “I’m Vietnamese. I was bor...
10055	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable orFor Catherine Tan, this experience of being, in a sense, a collateral victim of a cyberstalker who started out obsessed with someone else went from irritating to infuriating. Sometimes, the racial taunting especially hits a nerve. “I’m Vietnamese. I was bor...
10056	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I was born in the US,” Tan told me. “Growing up in the ’90s and early 2000s, at that time, American culture wasn’t as welcoming.” Some of S.’s comments would claim Tan “wants to be white.” Tan told me she does not want to be white, but she did struggle to emb...
10057	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Dealing with such comments over and over, even in adulthood, was at times depleting. But it was S.’s letter to Vassar that crossed a line. By November 9th, 2022, Tan was fed up. She felt like she needed to make it known. Now, S. was again publicly replying to...
10058	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But it was S.’s letter to Vassar that crossed a line. By November 9th, 2022, Tan was fed up. She felt like she needed to make it known. Now, S. was again publicly replying to Tan’s tweets, calling her “a basic bitch” who “hacks and steals passwords [to] check...
10059	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable She felt like she needed to make it known. Now, S. was again publicly replying to Tan’s tweets, calling her “a basic bitch” who “hacks and steals passwords [to] check out girls.” Tan was done allowing a platform that had enabled her harassment to keep getting...
10060	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Now, S. was again publicly replying to Tan’s tweets, calling her “a basic bitch” who “hacks and steals passwords [to] check out girls.” Tan was done allowing a platform that had enabled her harassment to keep getting away with it. She decided to try to take c...
10061	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable She decided to try to take control herself. Tan began to type. “I have a stalker,” Tan tweeted. “Recently, she contacted my employer in effort to get me fired. She is racist, and has begun contacting ASIAN ACADEMICS connected w/ me on this platform. So, if th...
10062	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “Recently, she contacted my employer in effort to get me fired. She is racist, and has begun contacting ASIAN ACADEMICS connected w/ me on this platform. So, if that is you, there’s a chance she will send a similar letter to your employer. If this happens…ple...
10063	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable She is racist, and has begun contacting ASIAN ACADEMICS connected w/ me on this platform. So, if that is you, there’s a chance she will send a similar letter to your employer. If this happens…please contact me immediately and I will put you in touch with my i...
10064	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable So, if that is you, there’s a chance she will send a similar letter to your employer. If this happens…please contact me immediately and I will put you in touch with my investigator.” Tan continued: “This has been going on for almost a year. I have NEVER met t...
10065	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable If this happens…please contact me immediately and I will put you in touch with my investigator.” Tan continued: “This has been going on for almost a year. I have NEVER met this harasser. I have NEVER engaged with this harasser. This is my first time publicly ...
10066	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I have NEVER met this harasser. I have NEVER engaged with this harasser. This is my first time publicly acknowledging this person.” Tan’s tweet was shared 4,350 times and received more than 15,000 likes. She received messages from other users and academics wh...
10067	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I have NEVER engaged with this harasser. This is my first time publicly acknowledging this person.” Tan’s tweet was shared 4,350 times and received more than 15,000 likes. She received messages from other users and academics who had stories about their own st...
10068	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable She received messages from other users and academics who had stories about their own stalkers. Even after S. appeared in her timeline, Tan refused to be scared away from speaking out online or depicting her life or work in public. She still posts regularly: P...
10069	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Even after S. appeared in her timeline, Tan refused to be scared away from speaking out online or depicting her life or work in public. She still posts regularly: Photos from dinners with friends or of her horseback riding. Tweets about her syllabus, her outf...
10070	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Tweets about her syllabus, her outfits, her husband, class prepping, grading. “I did it. 50 papers graded across 13 days.” “I’m not going to stop tweeting. I’m not going to adjust my life for this,” Tan told me. “I have my book coming out at the end of this y...
10071	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I’m not going to adjust my life for this,” Tan told me. “I have my book coming out at the end of this year. I don’t want this person to be in the back of my head. And most of the time, she isn’t.” But now and then, Tan learns about the latest threat, post, or...
10072	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable I’m not going to adjust my life for this,” Tan told me. “I have my book coming out at the end of this year. I don’t want this person to be in the back of my head. And most of the time, she isn’t.” But now and then, Tan learns about the latest threat, post, or...
10073	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable And most of the time, she isn’t.” But now and then, Tan learns about the latest threat, post, or racial slur, and it upsets her all over again. Tan went into academia expecting to be challenged at times by her grading, research, or even by her own colleagues....
10074	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Tan went into academia expecting to be challenged at times by her grading, research, or even by her own colleagues. “When you publish or you become more public, you’re always going to encounter haters, people who are ready to discredit you, people who are rea...
10075	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “When you publish or you become more public, you’re always going to encounter haters, people who are ready to discredit you, people who are ready to undermine your legitimacy,” Tan said. “That’s true for everybody, but especially for scholars of color.” Acade...
10076	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “That’s true for everybody, but especially for scholars of color.” Academia can be a place where it can feel, on some campuses, that Asian Americans are overrepresented. The Supreme Court recently struck down race-based admissions on college campuses. The two...
10077	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “That’s true for everybody, but especially for scholars of color.” Academia can be a place where it can feel, on some campuses, that Asian Americans are overrepresented. The Supreme Court recently struck down race-based admissions on college campuses. The two...
10078	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable The Supreme Court recently struck down race-based admissions on college campuses. The two cases at the center of the decision argued that racial preferences have unfairly disadvantaged certain groups, using Asian Americans as plaintiffs and pawns, claiming af...
10079	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Yet some universities, like one where Tan previously worked, enroll a student body made up of predominantly people of color, while the faculty is still overwhelmingly white. Sometimes, for other professors of color, it can feel like: “We only belong here beca...
10080	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sometimes, for other professors of color, it can feel like: “We only belong here because we were given special admission, some sort of affirmative action,” as Tan explained. “It’s definitely hard. And the people who will really ruin you won’t be the stalkers....
10081	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sometimes, for other professors of color, it can feel like: “We only belong here because we were given special admission, some sort of affirmative action,” as Tan explained. “It’s definitely hard. And the people who will really ruin you won’t be the stalkers....
10082	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “It’s definitely hard. And the people who will really ruin you won’t be the stalkers. They’re going to be your peers.” This can also make harassment more intimidating to report. If you don’t feel supported on the ground level, you can feel even more vulnerabl...
10083	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable They’re going to be your peers.” This can also make harassment more intimidating to report. If you don’t feel supported on the ground level, you can feel even more vulnerable at the top institutional level. When it comes to S., Tan said, “there’s the uncertai...
10084	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable If you don’t feel supported on the ground level, you can feel even more vulnerable at the top institutional level. When it comes to S., Tan said, “there’s the uncertainty of what’s gonna happen next because we know that she is confrontational. We know that sh...
10085	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable When it comes to S., Tan said, “there’s the uncertainty of what’s gonna happen next because we know that she is confrontational. We know that she’s not afraid to take action. It’s not just a Twitter diary,” she said. “Is she capable of violence?” By winter, S...
10086	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable It’s not just a Twitter diary,” she said. “Is she capable of violence?” By winter, Sinha had submitted a complaint about S. to the FBI via an online portal. He also tried calling the FBI. He did not hear back. Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan also filed police rep...
10087	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “Is she capable of violence?” By winter, Sinha had submitted a complaint about S. to the FBI via an online portal. He also tried calling the FBI. He did not hear back. Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan also filed police reports in their local jurisdictions. “The lo...
10088	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable He also tried calling the FBI. He did not hear back. Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan also filed police reports in their local jurisdictions. “The local police here will take a complaint from us, but they won’t go over there to arrest,” Sinha explained. The Southe...
10089	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Sinha, Umamaheswar, and Tan also filed police reports in their local jurisdictions. “The local police here will take a complaint from us, but they won’t go over there to arrest,” Sinha explained. The Southern Connecticut State University Police Department had...
10090	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “The local police here will take a complaint from us, but they won’t go over there to arrest,” Sinha explained. The Southern Connecticut State University Police Department had previously arrested S. She was later released, and the harassment did not stop. “I’...
10091	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “The local police here will take a complaint from us, but they won’t go over there to arrest,” Sinha explained. The Southern Connecticut State University Police Department had previously arrested S. She was later released, and the harassment did not stop. “I’...
10092	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable The Southern Connecticut State University Police Department had previously arrested S. She was later released, and the harassment did not stop. “I’m a lawyer. I know the flaws in the system quite well,” Sinha said. “Even for me, it’s been eye-opening.” Tan as...
10093	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “Even for me, it’s been eye-opening.” Tan asked the Poughkeepsie Police Department in New York if they might reach out to the Hamden Police Department in Connecticut, where S. lives, for assistance. But she said Poughkeepsie police declined. Sinha reached out...
10094	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But she said Poughkeepsie police declined. Sinha reached out to the New York Division of Human Rights as a hate crime resource. Since Tan and Sinha both live or work in New York, they wanted assistance filing hate crime complaints with New York State Police. ...
10095	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable But she said Poughkeepsie police declined. Sinha reached out to the New York Division of Human Rights as a hate crime resource. Since Tan and Sinha both live or work in New York, they wanted assistance filing hate crime complaints with New York State Police. ...
10096	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Since Tan and Sinha both live or work in New York, they wanted assistance filing hate crime complaints with New York State Police. “We’re all in different states,” Tan told me. “It’s not easy to arrest somebody. Unless she tries to physically harm us, there’s...
10097	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “We’re all in different states,” Tan told me. “It’s not easy to arrest somebody. Unless she tries to physically harm us, there’s not much we can do.” Every state has different laws, Sinha said. “It depends on where you are and where the perpetrator is.” As a ...
10098	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable “It depends on where you are and where the perpetrator is.” As a lawyer, Sinha believes there is no question that S. is breaking various laws: defamation, aggravated harassment, disorderly conduct, stalking, hate crime motivations. Some of these charges could...
10099	The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable Some of these charges could rise to the level of felonies. Yet even with all of Sinha’s knowledge, efforts, documentation, and research, he has been stonewalled. “If I can’t get some traction here,” he said, “I don’t know who could.” It’s extraordinary how in...

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