WEATHERFIELD, Conn. – A Connecticut English professor faces up to a year in jail for allegedly accusing a state trooper of racial profiling, apparently not realizing police dash cam footage would expose her lie.

Capital Community College associate professor Minati Roychoudhuri, 62, was driving down Rout 5/15 near Wethersfield May 9 when she was pulled over by a Connecticut State Police trooper at exit 85 for an improper lane change, The Hartford Courant reports.

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Roychoudhuri took the ticket from the officer without much fanfare, but apparently concocted a plan over the following month to weasel her way out of the ticket.

On June 8, Foychoudhuri allegedly sent a letter to Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Safety Dora Schriro that alleged the ticketing officer profiled her based on her race.

Fox Connecticut posted a copy of Roychoudhuri’s letter to Schriro:

Dear Sir/Madam

I was traveling to Wethersfield on Route 15/5 to attend a meeting 9th May. I was on the left lane on route 15 and had to take exit 85. After the Brainard Airport exit, and after the merging lane ended, I signaled and went to the right lane to take exit 85. An unmarked police car with flashing light stopped me on the ramp after I had taken the exit. The policeman asked me if I could speak English and if I knew why he had stopped me. I said, “yes” to speaking English and “no” to why he had stopped me. He then asked me for my driver’s license and registration. He returned with an envelope and said that I could simply mail in the infraction.

The officer did not give me any reason as to why had stopped me. His asking if I could speak English shows that he had racially profiled me and was not able to give me a concrete reason for stopping me. Further, the officer had checked “Hispanic” in the race category in the infraction ticket. I am a Professor in English at Capital Community College, I teach about diversity and the negative impact of racial profiling, I have now become a target of the same insidious behavior! It is easy to connect the dots with the nationwide racial profiling which has led to serious consequences. I request that my infraction charges be dropped and action be taken against the officer. I have talked with the Senator and Legislator of my constituency regarding this matter and I am sending a copy of this letter to them as well.

Thank you in advance, Sincerely, Minati Roychoudhuri

Of course, the state police launched an investigation of the incident because of Roychoudhuri’s complaint, and probably one of the first things they did was look at camera footage of the incident from the trooper’s cruiser.

Here’s a transcript of the video, also obtained by Fox Connecticut:

Officer: Hi ma’am, do you know why I’m stopping you today?
Roychoudhuri: No
O: OK. There’s that big gore area with white lines painted across it and you cut in front of it, in front of me, thinking it’s a lane or something. You have to wait until it’s a dotted white line. License and registration.
(She handed him insurance, so he requested the registration again, which she gave him)
O: Thank you. This is for your Subaru car.
R: This is my Subaru car.
O: Is this a station wagon, color green? The plate doesn’t match what’s on there.
R: [Inaudible]…I thought that was my [inaudible]
O: I’ll run the plate and see what it comes back with.
R: This is the [inaudible] that I have.
(Officer returns to his car for three minutes to write out the ticket for failure to drive in the established lane)
O: Ma’am. So I wrote you the infraction for that improper lane change that you did.
R: Please, you know, I probably crossed over there, and that’s why I did it.
O: OK.
R: Obviously I did that.
O: [Inaudible]
R: My [inaudible] is absolutely clean.
O: Ok. So I wrote you an infraction for that improper lane change that you did.
R: OK.
O: The answer date is on the front of it and the instructions are on the back of it.
R: Wait, what?
O: It’s a mail in infraction. All you have to do is mail in, either a check or money order, and mail it in.
R: OK.
O: Alright.
R: Thank you.

The investigators questioned Roychoudhuri about her story June 15, but she stuck to her guns, insisting she was racially profiled. She also signed a statement acknowledging it is a crime to lie to police.

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“In the interview, Roychoudhuri also said to the investigator she hates to think she was stopped due to her race, ‘But what should I presume? I hate to say this in academia, but I’m in academia and teach about diversity all the time.”

“Trooper First Class Kelly Grant said that the investigation concluded that Roychoudhuri’s statement about what occurred during the stop did not match with a video recording captured on the trooper’s dashboard camera,” the Courant reports.

“Every now and then people do make a complaint, more so because they are angry because they received a ticket,” Grant said. “In this case, she persisted and insisted that the trooper did all these things and made all these comments, not realizing that there was a dashboard cam.”

The trooper was cleared of any wrongdoing and state police issued a warrant for Roychoudhuri’s arrest for making a false statement in the second degree, according to a state police press release.

The community college professor turned herself in July 28 to the Hartford state police post, and was processed and released on a non-surety bond.

In Connecticut, making a false statement in the second degree is punishable by up to one year in jail and a $2,000 fine, according to MissingKids.com.

“Failure to drive in proper lane” is a $50 fine, according to the State of Connecticut infractions schedule.

Capital Community College declined to comment on the case when contacted by NBC Connecticut, though they said Roychoudhuri is on sabbatical.

The Connecticut State Police Union, on the other hand, had plenty of comments.

“That she would make a complaint of racial discrimination against a trooper who never did it and to publicize that is really what’s concerning us,” union president Andrew Matthews said. “Their employer should not only hold them responsible but should apologize on their behalf.”

Matthews told NBC Connecticut he sent a letter to Capital College officials essentially telling them the same thing.