Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
A student has filed a lawsuit against UC Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) Police Chief for sexual battery.
The University’s student-run newspaper, The Daily Nexus, reports a UCSB student identified as “Emily O.” filed a lawsuit against James Brock of the University of California Police Department (UCPD) for sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligence after he allegedly assaulted her at De La Guerra Dining Commons in August 2019.
The lawsuit states Brock came up behind the student and “grabbed her buttocks, slid his hand up her back and whispered in her ear.” She was taking a lunch break from one of her on-campus jobs at the time and immediately reported the incident to her supervisors and later to the UCPD Office, reports The Daily Nexus.
A spokesperson for the university stated the school is aware of a complaint in which an employee tripped and fell into another employee in a busy dining commons.
This is now the seventh active lawsuit filed against UCPD.
The full story can be read at dailynexus.com.
Tripped and fell huh….yea gotta watch those trips and falls.
another UCPD lawsuit. All of these so called cops are scumbags. I’ve had friends tell me about older married cops trying to get with girls. They’re just as sleazy as IV landlords. I hope she gets a ton of money and he gets fired.
The UCSB Police Dept needs to be completely disbanned and re-organized from the top (Chief) all the way down to their hiring procedures, or lack there of… UCSB Human Resources Dept is culpable as well- a TOTALLY mis-managed and corrupt Department.
Why so quick to defend?
Likely, it has happened MANY times. We women have this stuff happen all the time. As a 40 year-old woman who went to UCSB, I can tell you I sexually harassed by police 3 different times while I was in college. What the heck do you think #MeToo is about????!!! There is only so much we can do in a society that let’s people like Brock Turner off, guys who rape women right in front of other people and they testify and the guys are still let off. Ridiculous statements by clueless people and it isn’t going to stop until women start getting very violent because that’s all men respond to.
Why immediately jump on her side without knowing the evidence? There are also women who make up stuff in addition to men who are guilty of groping. My friends and I have been groped many times, and while it’s not pleasant, we take care of the problem ourselves. Never thought to make a pay day of it.
In addition, when someone claims sexual harassment and immediately files for a big pay day, I am just not sympathetic. If her story is true, I’d feel sorry she had to go through that, but where are her damages? Someone touched her back. Where is the lasting damage? That is minor compared to what I and almost every one of my girlfriends have had to put up with–and no one ever wanted to help us pursue lawsuits for money, nor did we want to do so. My friends and I could tell her what sexual harassment really is–when the coach gives you an F in a track and field program, because you won’t date him. That is an actual damage. Happened to me. I didn’t want money. I just reported him so it wouldn’t be easy for him to do that again, and I got the unfair grade fixed. When someone kidnaps you– that can create some real damage. (happened to me.) I pursued that as a crime, not a pay day. If every small episode of harassment is considered an event of such great magnitude that a big court date and pay out must ensue, it takes away from the seriousness of the truly damaging crimes against women.