Part 1 of the infamous and ever so complicated Gibsons Bakery vs Oberlin College and Meredith Raimondo lawsuit. This lawsuit took place after an Oberlin College student, Jonathan Aladin, attempted to shoplift two bottles of wine from Gibsons bakery. He was then violently confronted by the owner and then arrested. During the next few days college students rallied, protested, and boycotted the bakery and alleged that Gibsons had a long history of racial profiling. Gibsons bakery then sued the college for defamation and ended up winning 25 million dollars. In this episode, we look at how this all came to be and how the actions of one Oberlin administrator, Meredith Raimondo, is primarily responsible for the verdict of the lawsuit, though it is the Oberlin community that will bear the burden of her mistakes for years to come.
