Trinity College Scholar Whose Remarks Led to Campus Closure Is Cleared After Review

A Trinity College professor was suspended last month after his Facebook comments on race and law enforcement led to the Connecticut campus to close briefly. But a review has concluded that those remarks are in fact protected by academic freedom, according to a statement issued on Friday by the institution’s president.  Joanne Berger-Sweeney, the president, said in the statement that she did not condone Johnny Eric Williams’s statements, but she blamed much of the outcry directed at him on “misleading and incorrect reports about what he actually said.”