Student Wins $725,000 in Lawsuit Over ‘Troll Storm’ Led by The Daily Stormer
The first African-American female student body president of American #University was targeted by the neo-Nazi website.
Taylor Dumpson, a former student at American Univer…
Student Wins $725,000 in Lawsuit Over ‘Troll Storm’ Led by The Daily Stormer
The first African-American female student body president of American #University was targeted by the neo-Nazi website.
Taylor Dumpson, a former student at American University, was targeted by the neo-Nazi website because of her #race and gender, a federal judge ruled.Credit...Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times
By Mariel Padilla
Aug. 10, 2019
The first African-American female student body president of American University won a $725,000 judgment on Friday in a lawsuit against #AndrewAnglin, the publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer who incited a #racist “#trollstorm” targeting her, a judge ruled.
This was the third judgment in the past three months against Mr. Anglin. In a separate case on Thursday, a $14 million judgment was rendered against him. He owes a total of nearly $20 million to three people, but they have yet to see a cent in payments.
On the day that the student, Taylor Dumpson, was sworn in as American University’s student body president in May 2017, bananas were found hanging on nooses around campus.
The #bananas had messages scrawled on them. One referred to Ms. Dumpson’s predominantly black sorority and another read “#HARAMBEBAIT,” a reference to the gorilla killed at the #Cincinnati Zoo in 2016.
After news outlets reported on the nooses, Mr. Anglin posted Ms. Dumpson’s personal information online and encouraged his followers to harass her. Among them, Brian Ade and Evan McCarty heeded the call, threatening her with racist and demeaning messages online, according to a lawsuit filed last year.
Ms. Dumpson constantly feared for her safety and learned she had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the lawsuit. She went on to graduate from American University and is enrolled in law school, one of her lawyers, Kristen Clarke, said.
Mr. McCarty, of Eugene, Ore., reached a settlement in December in which he agreed to apologize, renounce white supremacy, undergo counseling and help #civilrights groups fight hate and #bigotry.
