Police say Park, who is not a student at the university, is responsible for messages posted online using the gossip app Yik Yak, which threatened to murder black students en masse. The school said no weapons were found.
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Multiple students made as of now unsubstantiated reports that a group of white people in pickup trucks were terrorizing and intimidating black students and there was scattered talk throughout the night of the Ku Klux Klan marching through the university’s Greek Town, along with a handful of other threats on social media.
The chancellor of the system’s flagship campus in Columbia, R. Bowen Loftin, followed suit and announced his resignation.
He was detained hours after another 19-year-old faced charges of threats against black students at a Missouri University campus hit by race protests.
He is a computer science undergraduate at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, based in Rolla.
Click claimed that she apologized to the reporter, Tim Tai, by phone, and that her apology was accepted.
“Park was contacted in Rolla, Missouri, by the University of Missouri Police and transported to the University of Missouri Police Department in Columbia where he was arrested and processed”, college campus police said in a statement.
The threat against black students raised concerns on the night of November 10 night while the school remained tense following the resignation of the school’s president over alleged racist campus incidents. They also pointed to a statement Wolfe made in November at the university’s Kansas City campus, in which he said, “Systematic oppression is because you don’t believe that you have the equal opportunity for success”.
The University of Missouri Board of Curators are set to name a new interim president for the university system.
CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz reports the student protest campsite was taken down overnight.
“If you give in to bullies, they win”, Dale Brigham, a professor of nutrition and exercise physiology, wrote to his students, according to the Washington Post.
“I don’t want to even touch campus”, she said.
Despite a heavier-than-normal police presence on campus, a few students chose to return home because they felt unsafe, students told Reuters.
Stottlemyre was arrested Wednesday morning at about 11 a.m. on the college’s Maryville campus.
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Among other recent events, members of the Legions of Black Collegians, whose founders include a recently retired deputy chancellor, said slurs were hurled at them by an apparently drunken white student while practicing for a homecoming performance. The university has promised changes. “We have watched faculty, many of whom have great expertise in social justice, act with extraordinary compassion to our students, and we have benefited greatly from our unbelievable staff who are dedicated to making Mizzou the best it can be”.
