A CSU student has been arrested in connection with a threat against Charleston Southern University on an anonymous social media app called Yik Yak, police say.
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Yik Yak is an anonymous social media platform in which users can post short updates and other users can reply to them as well as up and down vote them, giving the original poster karma points.
In his messages, Park said, “Some of you are alright”.
Members of the Boone and Cole County Sheriff’s Departments, the Columbia Police Department and the Missouri highway Patrol have all convened on campus as a measure of heightened security. The number of upvotes is displayed to the right of each message.
According to the Riverfront Times, Park is 20 years old and is not a student at the University of Missouri. Not a joke, at all.
Reggie Noble, a St. Louis resident, posted on his facebook page that groups of white University of Missouri students were terrorizing Black students and shouting “white power”. He said someone answered the phone and perceived the phone call as a threat.
“I’m afraid for my peers”, she said.
The student, JaShkira Dela Rosa, 23, was arrested Monday and faces a charge of threats to use a destructive device, according to North Charleston Police spokesman Spencer Pryor.
On Wednesday, co-founder Brooks Buffington released a message to the community calling the threats, “upsetting and completely unacceptable”.
Early this morning, the university issued a fresh statement, saying the suspect was not arrested on campus and that the university was “operating on a regular schedule”.
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The Concerned Student 1950 student group on campus that lead the activism against former President Tim Wolfe for failing to address the racial harassment on campus.
