Jodi Shaw, the former Smith College staffer who resigned over her opposition to critical race theory curricula, said police were called on her when she visited her old haunts this past weekend.
Shaw, who is white and describes herself as a “life-long liberal,” alleged in a video posted to the blog site, Locals, on Tuesday, that two different students reported to the campus police about her filming students at the Massachusetts-based school.
“It was a little surprising because I had a mask on, a hat, glasses, and everything, and it was like the students are that aware of me and thinking that I’m filming them, which was not true,” Shaw said.
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Shaw claimed she was on campus taking videos for about 10 minutes before she was approached by a police officer.
While the former staffer didn’t reveal the details of what she was filming, she said she apparently needed permission to film and is allowed on campus.
Shaw resigned from her role as a student support coordinator for the university in February after major disagreements in the school’s curriculum on race.
“I ask that Smith College stop reducing my personhood to a racial category. Stop telling me what I must think and feel about myself,” she said in a separate video posted in October.
The former staffer previously opined that she was asked to support a “dehumanizing” curriculum that she believed projected stereotypes and assumptions on people.
Following Shaw’s resignation, Smith College president Kathleen McCartney wrote an open letter, calling the former employee’s allegations of the school having a “racially hostile environment” for white people as a “baseless claim that the college flatly denies.”
Samuel Masinter, a spokesman for Smith College, told the Washington Examiner that Shaw and another individual were on campus filming themselves playing musical instruments, citing Campus Safety records.
Masinter noted that under the school’s filming and photography policy, permission has to be given to film or take photographs on campus.
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“Ms. Shaw and the second individual did not request or receive approval under this policy,” Masinter said. “The Campus Safety officer asked Ms. Shaw to stop filming and informed her that she could be on campus but would need to request written consent from the college for any future filming. Ms. Shaw opted to leave campus.”
