A University of Buffalo (SUNY) professor was arrested for screaming obscenities at an administration approved graphic pro-life display. While cursing profusely, she accused the pro-lifers of being “profane.”
The video below shows the arrest along with the professor cursing and finally yelling out to surrounding students to tell her 1 p.m. class that she wouldn’t be able to teach that day because she was being taken away in handcuffs.
I contacted the media relations department at UB and they confirmed the arrest. John DellaContrada, Assistant Vice President for Media Relations at UB, told CMR that:
Laura Curry was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. She is an adjunct instructor of media study. She is entitled to due process under the law.
This was a display by a student club, the UB Students for Life. Student organizations are allowed to reserve space on campus for purposes of free expression.
The University at Buffalo strives to create an environment in which diverse opinions can be expressed and heard. As a public university, it is a fundamental value of UB that all members of the campus community and their invited guests have a right to peacefully express their views and opinions, regardless of whether others may disagree with those expressions. This includes the right of protesters to oppose the views or opinions of others, but not in such a way as to limit or prevent the speaker’s freedom of expression or interfere with university operations.
I asked whether there would be any ramifications over the incident but I didn’t receive an answer on that.
Mind you, Professor Curry curses an awful lot while accusing the pro-life display of being profane. (The student who made the original video pulled it but someone else cleverly captured it so here it is):
This is not the first battle over abortion on the SUNY Buffalo campus. In 2011, a pro-life display was reportedly vandalized. In a separate incident, pro-lifers were reportedly pelted with feces by people enraged by the pro-life message.
April 18, 2013 at 3:04 pm
great to see the big mouth shut down and hauled away.
to the camera people learn how to use your camera.we missed seeing this mean face teacher of our kids we need to see the face, not shoulder down.
April 18, 2013 at 3:11 pm
..One question never ask is "How do we know the Baby who would of grown up, gone to school, became a scientist and stumbled onto a cure for cancer has not already been aborted (murdered) ?"
April 18, 2013 at 3:32 pm
If she is an example of a media professor I think we can understand why most of the media are so intolerant of any viewpoint but their own. My 5th grade teacher (WW2 vet)always taught us that you could tell a person's lack of education by the amount of foul language they used.
April 18, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Wouldn't we all want her teaching our kids? Ugh
April 18, 2013 at 4:14 pm
Is she an "Extremist," or what?
April 18, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Doesn't anyone remember the problem that the pro-life movement has experienced and still continues to experience with censorship? The Gosnell trial coverage is the latest example. Folks we have got to get the news of the barbarity of the crime of abortion out there! If you have a better way than showing the victims, DO IT! We oftentimes raised 1000s of dollars for various TV and radio ads only to have the stations censor the more positive message about respecting all human life which was portrayed in all of them. Until the genocide Awareness Project came along, no one was getting the message. Do we really want to stop abortion or are you more concerned that people feel good about themselves? Would you oppose having former concentration camp guards' feelings protected by not showing the Holocaust victims or would you like to protect other potential victims from actual death and dismemberment? Feelings come and go. Death comes only once to man. The blood of these little ones is crying to God in heaven for JUSTICE! If that means getting some people to think about their complicity, it is the first step towards ending it.
April 18, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Images of the German genocide against the Jews, the Poles, the Roma and Sinti peoples are historical records which document the facts, which inspire revulsion, and which are useful (though not entirely effective) in ensuring that history does not repeat itself. Certainly, the Third Reich did not permit such documentation to appear in the press. Abortionists and their collaborators benefit from the refusal of our press to inform us about the realities of abortion. Witness the lack of coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell. Kudos to the UB Students for Life for their efforts to bring the horrific reality to the attention of their peers.
April 18, 2013 at 4:45 pm
There is no story without the image to which she refers… y'all need to attend her media class on how to present a story. Also, she is not a professor. Adjuncts are essentially self-employed lecturers. It is extremely unlikely any prof would behave so, or any such person would ever make prof. Right now a pro-life site is promoting a foul-mouth gal being arrested, there is no evidence of anything else.
April 18, 2013 at 4:52 pm
She represents the new female of the Left….no inhibitions, no morals, promiscuous, no self respect for herself, her body or anyone else, and, certainly no ethics. I think, as a women who fought for Women's Rights in the l960's, that the death of 60,000,000 and counting since Roe vs. Wade is enough…60 million babies and, when you look really deeply into the horror you will find that it follows the eugencist and racist, Margaret Sanger. Her dictate that lesser beings were best gotten rid of…my paraphrasing…this is one of the foundational precepts of the progressives who merged with the Democratic Party in the early l930's…Today, we face monsters like Gosnell who cares less for the humans he treats or the babies he kills by inserting scissors and cutting the spinal cord…it is ideology of the worst kind!
April 18, 2013 at 4:54 pm
I have been informed that "UB Students for Life" is being required by the University to pay for the police presence. Perhaps they will receive some contributions from the readers of this web page to cover these costs.
I wonder whether the abortion mills are required to pay for police protection when such protection is deemed necessary. We already know the answer to that question, don't we?
April 18, 2013 at 4:59 pm
An instructor of Media Studies? How ironic that her response to a visual display was so inarticulate and so unreasoned. The videoclip is a sad commentary on the state of the Media Studies program at UB.
April 18, 2013 at 6:26 pm
So the "act" of abortion isn't profane but a photograph of the act is? WOW. Can you say hypocritical?
April 18, 2013 at 7:34 pm
Sue (extort) the college; sue the professor. It's time to use the left's favorite weapon against them.
April 18, 2013 at 9:09 pm
If this Lady wants to be a Student that's fine but as long as she is an Employee ,she is bound to the guidelines and mission of the College, that being encouraging honest and open debate amongst the students. She was in my opinion at variance with that mission.
April 19, 2013 at 1:24 am
tell laura dip-shit curry to shut the f up
why has this hag been fired ??
what P.O.S.
April 19, 2013 at 1:25 am
oops meant to say why HASNT she been fired?
April 19, 2013 at 11:27 pm
they did the same thing at my school two days ago, and told them they were "fucking disgusting" larger blown up billboards of severed baby limbs holding quarters and in jars doesn't help me take a single look at their cause, and really bothered me that they just post it on a wall by the school. Children shouldn't have to see those images.
April 21, 2013 at 4:17 am
the poster who claimed the pro-lifers were yelling and abusing people…
I want proof. Show the video.
I don't believe you. I want to see the evidence. Pro-lifers I know, are nothing like what you are describing (except in your imagination… and with exception of some nutters). I want to see these exceptions-to-the-rule because I'll bet they are not at all representative like you are portraying.
Pro-life nut-jobs exist, but they usually don't congregate at events like this because those who genuinely understand and protest abortion are not such caricatures, and they disassociate from them.
show the video. I want to see the numbers, and I want to see the reaction of the genuinely pro-life and caring students who oppose child-killing,
P.S. I have children whom I DO NOT want to see these images, but I tend to see it as the fault of those who perpetrate abortion. I didn't want them to see blacks hung from trees, but they stumbled across that in Life magazine before I felt they were "ready."
kim
April 21, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Looks like this video is gone too!
April 24, 2013 at 6:38 pm
well lookie-there, she already has people behind her:
http://nysr.tumblr.com/post/48199015933/stand-with-laura-curry
excerpts:
"Stand With Laura Curry
Hi tumblr friends, my friend was unjustly arrested on Monday and I’m helping with the defense committee. Here’s what went down from the official statement:" …
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In response, throughout the day, groups of students and faculty engaged the pro-life picketers. One graduate student and adjunct instructor, Laura Curry, expressed her strong emotional response to the images and rhetoric of the pro-life group. When interrupted by campus police, she was arrested after demanding to know why her raised voice and expletives were more offensive than the hate speech displayed by the pro-life group. She is being charged with disorderly conduct and has an appearance ticket for the Amherst Town Court on May 9.
We are angry that the university should allow such racist, misogynistic content to be displayed on campus without any consequences or care for the safety and well-being of members of our community. We are ashamed that a strong emotional response to hate on campus is considered disorderly, while the hate itself is sanctioned. We are alarmed that the University Police used unilateral power in deciding which types of speech are and are not acceptable. "