The immigration system does not give anyone a second chance for being a dumb teenager. You are punished first for the crime you committed. Then you are punished for the accident of your birthplace.
But we can probably be certain of one thing. Dharun Ravi surely never imagined that that webcam could become a one-way ticket to his own deportation. The Indian-American student who secretly filmed his roommate's gay liaison could get 10 years in prison in the case that has struck an anti-bullying nerve in America.
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We know that you will succeed. One day this fall, Ravi was in a courthouse in New Brunswick, fifteen miles to the north, awaiting a pre-trial hearing. In a windowless room, he sat between two lawyers, wearing a black suit and a gray striped tie.
His eyes were red. Although he is only nineteen, he has a peculiarly large-featured, fully adult face, and vaguely resembles Sacha Baron Cohen. His father, Ravi Pazhani, a slight man with metal-frame glasses, sat behind him. Some way to the right of Pazhani were Joseph and Jane Clementi. Jane Clementi, who has very straight bangs, wore a gold crucifix. She and her husband form a tall, pale, and formidable-looking couple.
That September, Tyler Clementi and Ravi were freshman roommates at Rutgers University, in a dormitory three miles from the courtroom. A few weeks into the semester, Ravi and another new student, Molly Wei, used a webcam to secretly watch Clementi in an embrace with a young man.
The day after that, Clementi committed suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge. ABC News and others reported that a sex tape had been posted on the Internet. Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese company that turns tabloid stories into cartoons, depicted Ravi and Wei reeling from the sight of Clementi having sex under a blanket.
Something must be done. Ravi was called a tormenter and a murderer. It became widely understood that a closeted student at Rutgers had committed suicide after video of him having sex with a man was secretly shot and posted online. In fact, there was no posting, no observed sex, and no closet. But last spring, shortly before Molly Wei made a deal with prosecutors, Ravi was indicted on charges of invasion of privacy sex crimes , bias intimidation hate crimes , witness tampering, and evidence tampering.
Bias intimidation is a sentence-booster that attaches itself to an underlying crime—usually, a violent one. Ravi had made four court appearances since his indictment. The man, known in the public record as M. Ravi was visibly anxious when the judge addressed him. Last May, Berman reminded him, he had rejected a plea offer made by McClure. If Ravi accepted the plea offer, he would serve no more than five years.
Berman asked Ravi if he understood. Ravi said yes, in an unexpectedly high voice, and gave a reflexive smile. He was not taking this deal. Berman set a trial date of February 21st. The Clementis waited for Ravi and his father to leave, then walked out, hand in hand. On a Saturday night in August, , a week before starting college, Dharun Ravi decided to look online for his future Rutgers roommate. He was living with his parents in Plainsboro. Ravi, who was planning to major in math and economics, had learned that he had been assigned to Davidson Hall—a collection of single-story, barracks-like dorms on Busch campus, which is considered the dullest of the four Rutgers campuses in New Brunswick and neighboring Piscataway.
He would be in Davidson Hall C, a coed dorm for about eighty students. A little before midnight, Ravi began an I. This guy is retarded. Nobody had replied. Ravi and Tam also found questions about anti-virus software and contributions to a Web site of counter-revolutionary peevishness called Anythingbutipod. In these old posts, at least, Keybowvio—who was indeed Tyler Clementi—seemed worried or defensive about computing.
Ravi sent Tam a link to a page that contained sex-tinged ads but was otherwise mundane. At six minutes past midnight, Tam offered Ravi a summary. Picone, who was about to start at Rutgers, and who described himself as gay.
He was good-looking, with long wavy hair sometimes held in place with a headband; video clips indicated that he was a talented singer. Tam remembered that Ravi had met a gay student named Carter during orientation at Rutgers, and had since spoken of him admiringly. My dad is going to throw him out the window. In witness statements taken for the Clementi case, nobody has recalled Ravi being contemptuous of gay people. His Twitter account— Dharun—was public and easy to find.
Tyler Clementi read that first tweet about himself before he started at Rutgers. Ravi sent Tyler Picone a message, via Facebook. Picone wrote back, explaining that he was the wrong Tyler. The same day, Ravi finally heard from Clementi, by e-mail. Picone, who grew up in nearby South River, was charming and assured. Picone imagined that, had he and Ravi become roommates, they might have become friends. But he acknowledged that to speak so generously of Ravi—to unsettle the portrait of him as the perpetrator of hate crimes—was unwelcome at Rutgers.
Once Ravi understood that he would be living with Clementi, not Picone, he felt that he knew these essential facts: his roommate was gay, profoundly uncool, and not well off.
If the first attribute presented both a complication and a happy chance to gossip, the second and third were perceived as failings. One evening not long ago, I visited Paul Mainardi, a lawyer with a professorial manner who lives in Philadelphia, in an apartment tower with a wide view of the Delaware River. Mainardi poured a whiskey. He has accompanied the Clementis to hearings, and issued occasional press statements.
The town, which is wealthy and white, was recently ranked fifteenth on a list of the top-earning towns in the country, one place below Greenwich, Connecticut. She noted the economic difference between the east and west sides of town.
Jane Clementi is a nurse. Joseph Clementi runs the public-works department in the nearby town of Hawthorne. They have two older sons, both of whom returned home after finishing college. Jane Clementi is active in the local Grace Church, which is affiliated with Willow Creek, the evangelical megachurch near Chicago. Mainardi described a quiet family. Metaverse: A high-tech plan to Facebookify the world. Google honours India's first woman pilot with a doodle. Home International Dharun Ravi has already suffered enough: Parents.
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