Corey Menafee had been working at Yale since 2007. He was fired after the University considered him a threat to students after he destroyed a photo of slaves carrying cotton from a resident hall. The hall, was named after pro-slavery vice president John C. Calhoun (Calhoun College).
Menafee has no remorse. He says,
“I took a broomstick, and it was kind of high, and I climbed up and reached up and broke it. It’s 2016, I shouldn’t have to come to work and see things like that.”
He then says he went to the bathroom to shave and look presentable before police arrived to arrest him.
“I just went to the bathroom and shaved to make sure I was clean-shaven for the authorities.”
He went on to say,
“It could be termed as civil disobedience. But there’s always better ways of doing things like that than just destroying things. It wasn’t my property, and I had no right to do it.”
Eileen O’Connor, Vice President for Communications at Yale says that Menafee “subsequently resigned” after he apologized for what he did. O’Connor says that they “will not advocate that the employee be prosecuted in connection with this incident and is not seeking restitution.”
Source: Complex
