The first black woman to serve as American University’s student government president has sued a neo-Nazi website’s publisher, accusing him of orchestrating an online harassment campaign against her.
Taylor Dumpson‘s federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Washington, says Andrew Anglin directed The Daily Stormer’s readers to “troll storm” her with a barrage of racist and demeaning messages on social media.
Authorities began investigating last May after someone hung bananas with hateful messages from nooses on the university’s campus a day after Dumpson’s inauguration. Dumpson has feared for her safety since Anglin posted an article about the incident, including links to her Facebook page and the American University Student Government’s Twitter page, her suit says.
The case is at least the third federal lawsuit filed against Anglin by a target of his trolling campaigns. Anglin didn’t immediately respond to an email Tuesday seeking comment on Dumpson’s suit, which was filed by attorneys from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Source: Black Student Sues Neo-Nazi Founder Over ‘Troll Storm’
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