PhotoApproximately 40 supporters, including Yale students and faculty members and community leaders, filed into the courtroom behind Mr. Menafee. Thomas Conroy, a spokesman for Yale, said Mr. Menafee apologized and resigned after the episode. On Tuesday morning, Mr. Menafee appeared in court with Patricia Kane, a lawyer working pro bono on his behalf. “No employee should be subject to coming to work and seeing slave portraits on a daily basis,” Mr. Menafee told a police officer, according to the Yale Police Department’s incident report. The episode, which took place in mid-June but only recently garnered widespread attention, was first reported by The New Haven Independent.

Source: New York Times July 13, 2016 00:41 UTC