Oberlin College has agreed to pay over $36 million to Gibson’s Bakery in the defamation lawsuit involving alleged false claims of racial profiling.
Gibson’s Bakery filed suit against the progressive college in 2017 for siding with three black students who claimed the store racially profiled them when they were caught stealing from the shop the year before.
“We are disappointed by the Court’s decision. However, this does not diminish our respect for the law and the integrity of our legal system,” the small liberal arts college said. Bakery owner Lorna Gibson said in a piece for The Post last week that her family’s lives were “turned upside town” the night of the November 2016 robbery after the students Jonathan Aladin, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone – who allegedly beat up her son Allyn Gibson – claimed to cops that Allyn racially profiled and assaulted them.
Allyn, who is white, chased that student out of the store — and a scuffle ensued between him and the three students. “We felt that we had no choice other than filing a lawsuit against Oberlin … because David’s 89-year-old father, who had dedicated his life to the business, did not want to die being falsely branded a racist,” Gibson said in the essay. “Calling us racists wasn’t just wrong, it was deeply painful to our core.”
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