Missouri’s journalism school executive committee said in a statement that the video showed that its student journalists “acted professionally when faced with a hard scenario”, noted the Missourian.
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On Monday, 23 year old Jashkira Dela Rosa, a Charleston Southern University student, was arrested, after police say she posted threats on the same social media site. Those records noted that Park was a student at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, where Heckmaster confronted Park early Wednesday in the sophomore computer science major’s dorm room.
Yik Yak is a social media app that allows users to post anonymously.
The online posts on the anonymous location-based messaging app YikYak and other social media Tuesday threatened to “shoot every black person I see”.
Brenda Smith-Lezama, vice president of the Missouri Students Association, advocated for more “safe spaces” on campus to provide a place for “healing” for students. “But there’s a point where discussion can go too far – and the threats that were posted on Yik Yak last night were both upsetting and completely unacceptable”. As worries began to percolate, the university tweeted, “There is no immediate threat to campus”.
Campus police say they arrested 19-year-old Hunter M. Park about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday. “Don’t go to campus tomorrow”, Park “smiled and stated, ‘I was quoting something, ‘” Heckmaster wrote. Stottlemyre was being held at the Nodaway County Jail on suspicion of making a terrorist threat.
It has been a tumultuous week on the Columbia campus.
Authorities said that this threat did not specifically mention the University of Missouri. He’s accused of making a very serious threat on Yik Yak toward African American students at Mizzou.
The arrests came two days after the university’s president and chancellor stepped down amid protests over their handling of reports of racial abuse. Those proved false, but not before several on campus, including University of Missouri Student Body President Payton Head cautioned against the white supremacist group.
Image courtesy of University of Missouri.
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“I regret the language and strategies I used, and sincerely apologize to the MU campus community, and journalists at large, for my behavior, and also for the way my actions have shifted attention away from the students’ campaign for justice”, Click wrote, in a statement.
