Below please find My 3 Minute Account of What Really Happened at Yale During the Living or Napping While Black Hate Crime Hoax YouTube Channel Video and Transcript. Many persons have requested transcripts of my videos, and I will provide them here, especially the videos of my full, detailed account of what really happened during the now notorious Living or Napping While Black incident at Yale, which was actually a hate crime hoax, and the Yale Administration and the Yale Campus Police were complicit.

Here is the My 3 Minute Account of What Really Happened at Yale During the Living or Napping While Black Hate Crime Hoax YouTube Channel Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP_pyY4kfg8

Here is the transcript thereof:

Hi.  This is Sarah Braasch.  Welcome or welcome back to my channel.  

Today, I want to do a 3 minute or so video giving you a complete summary statement of what really happened at Yale this past spring during the now infamous Living or Napping While Black incident.  

First, I had an unfortunate encounter outside of my isolated dorm room with the man who made numerous television appearances on February 24^th, 2018.  I ended up calling the non emergency helpline of the Yale campus police. I told them that I wasn’t sure that I needed their help, but they said that they would send someone by, just in case. Later that evening, I was terrorized in my isolated dorm room for having done so.  I sent an email to the Resident Coordinators of my dorm, who insinuated that I had done something wrong.  I met with the Yale Housing Managers who told me that not only had I done absolutely nothing wrong, but that I was the only person who had done nothing wrong, and that they intended to discipline the Resident Coordinators.

After having been made aware a week later, by the Yale Housing Director, that I was being accused of racism, including by a group of Yale Deans, who had already determined punishments for me, I attempted, unsuccessfully, for months, to work with the Yale Administration and the Yale Campus Police, to clear my name and to restore my good reputation.  All the while, I was being terrorized in my isolated dorm room, presumably by the persons who were involved in the February 24^thincident and the Resident Coordinators.  The Yale Administration and the Yale Campus Police stood by and did absolutely nothing, while I was being stalked, harassed, and attacked.  The only thing the Yale Administration and the Yale Campus Police told me to do was to call the Yale Campus Police for any reason, at any time, even if I was unsure that the circumstances merited such a call.  

On May 8^th, 2018, while I was attempting to flee my home, out of fear of violence, and after having been terrorized in my isolated dorm room all evening, I happened upon someone in the small common room, next to my isolated dorm room, who made statements to me that made it clear that she was one of the persons who had been terrorizing me that evening, and for months.  

I called the non emergency helpline of the Yale Campus Police for that reason.  I had to show my student ID, and I was not only interrogated, but berated by the Yale Campus Police, who refused to listen to me explain what had happened.

Subsequently, the Yale Administration and the Yale Campus Police released grossly wrongful and defamatory public statements about me.  

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Below please find my emails from the February 24th, 2018 Incident at Yale that began the nightmare that became the Living or Napping While Black Hate Crime Hoax. As you will be able to tell from reading the emails, I did absolutely nothing wrong. In fact, I was the person who was terrorized in my own home, my isolated dorm room, on the evening of February 24th, 2018. You will also be able to see why the Yale Housing Managers told me that not only had I done nothing wrong, but that I was the only person involved who had done nothing wrong. Also, the Yale Housing Managers told me that they were extremely displeased with the way that the Hall of Graduate Studies Coordinators had handled the situation, and they told me that the Coordinators would be reprimanded for their wrongful behavior. The Yale Housing Managers told me to return to my dissertation, and not to give the incident another thought. They told me that they would deal with all of the other students involved, including the students who had terrorized me in my isolated dorm room that evening. I was trapped in my dorm room for hours, terrified, and unable to leave. I did not call the Yale Campus Police again, because I was terrified, justifiably, in retrospect, of further retaliation. This is why I chose to send an email to the Resident Coordinators instead. They did not respond to my email for many hours, as you can see from the emails below. The Resident Coordinators never spoke to me that evening, even though they seemingly spoke to everyone else involved, nor did the Yale Campus Police come to speak to me, as they said that they would. It seems, from the emails below, that the Resident Coordinators may even have been present for the event in the 12th floor common room that evening, which means that they would have been present when I was being terrorized in my dorm room. I believe now that they may have even participated in terrorizing me in my dorm room that evening.

Here is the YouTube Channel video wherein I read the emails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPLek1-d-t0

Here are the emails:

The subject line reads: I had a negative experience I have to relate to you unfortunately

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Sarah Braasch <email redacted> wrote:

To the HGS Resident Coordinators,

I’m so sorry guys. But, I have to ask that whichever persons or organization were holding an event in the common room on the 12th floor of the tower tonight, please don’t allow them to hold events in there any longer.

Their behavior this evening was disgusting.

I had an unfortunate experience. I have been especially cognizant of my personal safety with respect to access to my room in HGS (1201), since an HGS staff member was entering my room unauthorized and hanging out by my room on the 12th floor of the tower, waiting for me to enter and leave.

Today, around 5 pm, I think, a man entered the tower elevator behind me. It was just the two of us. I waited for him to use his key to operate the elevator, but it was clear that he was waiting for me to use mine. I felt a bit uncomfortable, but I went ahead and used my key and pressed 12 for my floor. Then, I asked him which floor he needed, and he said 12. Obviously, I became concerned, but I decided not to panic. I thought that maybe he was making use of the common room on the 12th floor, the only other room on the 12th floor, of course.

But, when we exited the elevator, I waited a moment before entering my room, so that he could make his way into the common room, but he didn’t. He just stood there like he was waiting for me to enter my room. Obviously, I wasn’t going to enter my room. I didn’t panic. I walked down the steps to the 11th floor, I went into the side stairway, and I walked slowly back up to the 12th floor.

From the side stairway, I entered the common room. There was no one in there, so clearly it was not being used. I hoped that the man had left.

I exited the common room, and I didn’t see him on the landing, so I approached my door, but then he called out to me — he was on the landing between the 12th and 11th floors. He asked me where the common room was.

I told him that no one was in there, and that he needed to be a resident and have a key to get in there, and that if he wasn’t supposed to be there that he needed to leave, because he was making me very nervous. He told me that he was a student. I told him it didn’t matter — you can’t get into the common room w/o a key and to please leave.

I entered my room and called the Yale police and told them what happened. I told them that I wasn’t sure if I really needed their assistance or no, but they said that they would stop by, just in case.

I assume that the police came by and spoke with whomever ended up using the common room, because a group of persons, shortly thereafter, stood outside my door, fake laughing uproariously and saying, Are we making you nervous, oh hell no, she’s going to call the cops on us!

I can only assume that these were the people who had arranged to use the common room this late afternoon.

I find their behavior egregiously unacceptable, and I ask you to not allow them to use the common room any longer.

I cannot even believe that they would do what they did, and I refuse to apologize for being concerned for my personal safety.

Thank you for reading this email and for your attention to this matter.

All best,
Sarah Braasch

On Feb 24, 2018, at 10:05 PM, Resident Coordinators <email redacted> wrote:

Good evening Sarah,
Thank you for bringing this serious issue to our attention.

We managed to speak to the policemen that came in, the suspicious character looking for the common room (who, by the way, was a student), and the resident that invited him.

There will be a Housing Office meeting happening at HGS on Thursday, the 1st of March, at 7pm. The meeting will be an info session for next semester’s housing plans, but there will be two of the housing office managers (cc’d in this email) present. We would encourage you to come and share what happened then so that we can find a way forward.

Regards,

Grant & Esther

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Bishop, Beth <email redacted> wrote:
Hi Sarah,
I’m so terribly sorry to hear of this incident. Please let’s meet before Thursday to discuss. I don’t think this can wait that long. Let me know your availability for Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beth

On Feb 24, 2018, at 10:24 PM, Sarah Braasch <email redacted> wrote:

Hi Beth,

I could pop by your office (are you still in Helen Hadley Hall?) on Monday afternoon around 230ish or anytime thereafter. Thanks so much for taking this seriously.

I have no way of knowing if it’s the same people, but people hold noisy late night parties in 1200 not infrequently, and I usually try to just ignore them. We might as well go ahead and address that issue at the same time. I was planning on coming on Thursday anyway, to discuss my plans for next year.

It’s my fault. I should have just gotten out of the elevator to begin with, but I’m always so afraid of hurting others’ feelings that I put myself in bad situations.

Thanks so much.

Best,
Sarah

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:01 PM, Bishop, Beth <email redacted> wrote:

Monday at 2:30 will be fine. I’ll see you then.

Sent from my iPhone

Sarah Braasch <email redacted> Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 10:56 AM

To: “Bishop, Beth” <email redacted>
Cc: “email redacted” <email redacted>, Resident Coordinators <email redacted>, “St. Marie, Katlyn” <email redacted>

Hi everybody,

The people who held the party last night (I assume that this was them.) left all of their trash thrown everywhere on the 11th floor landing, and the entire hallway reeks to high heaven. This is also not an uncommon occurrence, especially on the weekends.

Can we please implement a throw out your own trash policy, instead of leaving it in the hallway for the nearby residents to enjoy over the weekend each weekend?

Thanks so much. Another item for discussion on Thursday.

Best,
Sarah

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Please find below the letter I sent to Yale General Counsel, demanding a full retraction of their grossly false and defamatory public statements about me, statements that destroyed my life and career, and almost drove me to suicide and almost incited my murder. Yale General Counsel responded by refusing to apologize and refusing to retract these grossly false and defamatory statements. They refused to comply with any of my demands.

Notice to Cease and Desist and Notice of Demand for Retraction and Apology

VIA EMAIL:  susan.sawyer@yale.edu

March 25, 2019

Susan Sawyer, Sr. Associate General Counsel

Office of the General Counsel

Yale University

2 Whitney Avenue

New Haven, CT 06510-1220

Re:  Defamation of Character of Sarah Braasch

Dear Attorney Sawyer:

This letter serves as a demand that all Yale Administrators cease and desist their grossly false and defamatory statements about me, Sarah Braasch, immediately.  This letter also serves as a demand that all Yale University Administrators who have made such grossly false and defamatory statements about me, including Yale President Peter Salovey, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Lynn Cooley, Yale Vice President of Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, Yale Associate Dean of Graduate Student Development and Diversity Michelle Nearon, and Yale Campus Police Chief Ronnell Higgins, immediately and publicly retract those statements and immediately and publicly apologize to me, Sarah Braasch, for having made those grossly false and defamatory statements. 

These grossly false and defamatory statements include the following:

1 – Yale President Peter Salovey’s public condemnation on August 1^st, 2018, of me, Sarah Braasch, as guilty of racial harassment and his citing me as the impetus for sweeping University-wide policy changes.  This occurred after the Yale General Counsel Attorney Susan Sawyer made clear to my Attorney, Jennifer Zito, that Yale had dropped the racial component of the charges against me, because there was absolutely no reason to think that I had ever acted out of racial animus or bias, in any way, shape, or form. Moreover, when Yale President Peter Salovey made his grossly false and defamatory August statement about me, he knew that I was suicidal and had been since May 8^th, 2018.  He knew that I had received thousands upon thousands of death threats and threats of violence, and that I had been forced into hiding for my personal safety.  He knew that he was endangering my life, as well as destroying my reputation, career, livelihood, and life.  Moreover, President Salovey was fully aware that I was entirely innocent, but he precluded the possibility of my receiving a fair hearing in front of the disciplinary committee, denying me any due process whatsoever, in gross violation of his contractual obligations with me.  

2 – Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Lynn Cooley’s grossly false and defamatory public statement on May 8^th, 2018, wherein she makes false statements of fact about what occurred on May 8^th, 2018, and she grossly mischaracterizes the incident, both of which statements and characterization she knew to be false, not only because she was aware of what had transpired since February 24^th, 2018, but also because I explicitly informed her of such in an email. She responded to me via email by stating that she had absolutely no intention of either retracting or modifying her grossly false and defamatory statement about me, Sarah Braasch.

3 – Yale President Peter Salovey’s grossly false and defamatory public statement about me, Sarah Braasch, on May 10^th, 2018, wherein he condemns me as racist and ignorant, and he describes the May 8^thincident as hateful and exclusionary.  At this point, President Salovey was fully aware that I was entirely innocent.  It simply isn’t possible that he hadn’t been informed by the Yale Administrators and the Yale Campus Police of my voluminous correspondence and dealings with them regarding how I had been terrorized in my isolated dorm room for months. 

4 – Yale Vice President of Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews’ grossly false and defamatory public statement about me, Sarah Braasch, on May 10^th, 2018, wherein she describes the May 8^thincident as one of racial bias, discrimination, and harassment.  She claims that she is “deeply troubled” by the May 8^thincident and claims that she doesn’t know what happened.  I was informed by Yale Provost and University-wide Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler that VP of Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews was one of the Administrators who had been involved since February 24^th, 2018, so her claims not to know what happened are false.  

5 – Yale Campus Police Chief Ronnell Higgins’ grossly false and defamatory public statement about me, Sarah Braasch, on May 10^th, 2018, wherein he said that I was “admonished,” a statement that he subsequently removed, but not before the incalculable damage was done.  The statement, that I had been “admonished,” was propagated around the world, including by Yale VP of Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews.  Chief Higgins’ public statement is astonishing in its omissions of crucial facts that would have exonerated me.  He neglects to mention everything that I had told the Yale campus police officers on May 8^thabout why I felt compelled to call the non emergency helpline of the Yale campus police, which is included in the Yale campus police body camera footage from May 8^th, which they continue to refuse to release.  He neglects to state that I had been terrorized in my isolated dorm room for months before May 8^th.  He neglects to state that I only called the non emergency helpline of the Yale campus police after the woman whom I had encountered made statements to me making it clear to me that she was very likely one of the persons who had been terrorizing me that evening and for months.  He neglects to mention that I had been begging the Yale Administration and the Yale campus police for months to protect me and to stop the harassment, stalking, and attacks against me, to no avail.  He neglects to state that he had, via Yale Provost and University-wide Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler, repeatedly assured me that it was always ok to call the Yale campus police, for any reason, at any time, even if I am unsure of whether my circumstances merit such a call.  He assured me that I never do something wrong by calling the Yale campus police.  He also assured me, repeatedly, via Provost Spangler, that I have every right, as a woman living alone in Yale’s on campus graduate student housing, to take reasonable precautions to ensure my own safety, including being able to enter my dorm room safely.   

6 – Yale VP of Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews and Yale Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley discussed possible punishments for me with the Yale Daily News, including being banned from Yale’s on campus housing and being banned from teaching at Yale, as was reported in the Yale Daily News on May 12^th, 2018.  On October 5^th, 2018, Yale Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley banned me from Yale’s campus in perpetuity, and banned me from teaching at Yale in perpetuity, with no due process whatsoever, and after the disciplinary charges against me had been withdrawn.  At the time that Secretary Goff-Crews and Dean Cooley were discussing possible punishments for me with the Yale Daily News, they knew that I was entirely innocent.  They knew that I had been terrorized in my isolated dorm room for months before May 8^th.  They knew that the only reason I called the non emergency helpline of the Yale campus police on May 8^this because the woman whom I had encountered made statements to me that made it clear to me that she was very likely one of the persons who had been terrorizing me that evening and for months.  They knew that the Yale Housing Managers had cleared me of any wrongdoing whatsoever regarding the February 24^th, 2018 incident.  

The damage to my life, reputation, livelihood, good name, and career are incalculable.  I was forced to flee my dorm room and then campus. I was suicidal for near a year and forced into hiding for my personal safety.  I continue to be defamed as a racist, including today, in the Yale Daily News.  I can’t even begin to count the death threats and threats of violence that I have received. I can’t even begin to count the number of instances of defamation as guilty of racial harassment that I have endured in the national and international news media, as well as on social media, including in the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, ABC’s GMA and The View, The Washington Post, and the list goes on and on.  My academic and legal and human and civil rights careers are over. I will never be able to secure gainful employment.  I will no longer be able to support myself.  

I had been a lifelong human and civil rights licensed attorney activist who had devoted her life to undermining oppression in all of its many forms, including racism.  No one who has ever known me has ever heard or seen me say or do anything racist ever.  Everything that I had wished for my life is no longer possible.  Everything that I had strived for my entire life has been destroyed, it has been stripped from me through no fault of my own.  

As a result, I immediately demand the following: 

1. Yale immediately end the ban against my being present on campus;
2. Yale immediately end the ban on my teaching at Yale;
3. Yale release all body cam videos to the media with advance notice to me of the release date;
4. Yale make clear that the video taken of me on May 8^thwas recorded illegally under Connecticut State Law;
5. Yale make clear that I had a reasonable expectation of privacy standing in the threshold of my dorm room in Yale’s on campus housing;
6. Yale make clear that women living in Yale’s on campus housing, including older, disabled women have the right to take reasonable precautions to ensure that they may enter their dorm rooms safely, including by calling the Yale campus police;
7. Yale issue a public apology to me for concluding that I acted with any racial animus in connection with these incidences, and stating that all the evidence known to Yale suggests otherwise; and
8. That Yale publicly announce that I have been publicly misrepresented as engaging in discriminatory misconduct. Indeed my work at Yale and beyond evidence that I harbor no racial animus whatsoever. To the contrary, I have dedicated myself to causes of social justice including the cause of eradicating all forms of discrimination.

I expect a response from you in short order.

Sincerely, 

Sarah Braasch

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