Joann Baney, a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, was arrested last week and charged with misdemeanor assault.
The “staunch defender of women’s rights” and “outspoken critic against domestic violence” punched her boyfriend, Walter Frey, while he slept. How come?
He allegedly cheated on her.
The New York Daily News reports:
“I hit him because he cheated on me,” Baney told a cop who responded to the Saturday night assault, the court documents show.
Frey suffered cuts to his left ear and the right side of his neck.
The 5-foot, 125-pound Baney was taken into custody without incident at the luxury West End Avenue building, police said.
Baney is the faculty director of the FDNY Officers Management Institute and sits on the faculty of the NYPD’s Police Management Institute, which offers professional degrees through Columbia’s Executive Education program. Elite FDNY and NYPD personnel who are considered to be the future leaders of their departments are selected for the program, the source said.
The professor was released on her own recognizance at her arraignment on Sunday, but a judge authorized an order of protection for Frey. The professor then left town, according to a man at her apartment that identified himself as her brother.
Baney’s duties at those institutes include training cops and firefighters on “how to tamp down heated situations.”
Go figure.
h/t Bwog.
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