Police investigating white substance, rape threat sent to Stanford law professor

STANFORD, Calif. - Police are investigating after an unknown white substance was received by a Stanford Law School faculty member located in the Neukom Building.  

Stanford University said in a statement that two rooms of the law building were temporarily closed Wednesday. Emergency personnel later determined the substance was "an inert powder" that posed no health concern. 

Stanford law professor Michelle Dauber told KTVU that she was the recipient of the white powder along with a rape threat.

Dauber is leading the recall effort against Santa Clara County judge Aaron Persky. In 2016, Persky sparked outrage when he sentenced Brock Turner, then a Stanford swimmer, to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a campus party.  

Dauber said this is not the first time that she has received a rape threat focused around her role in the 
recall campaign.

The decision on whether to recall Persky will go in front of voters on June 5, 2018.