Missouri police on Wednesday quickly arrested Hunter Park, 19, a student at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri, a sister campus to the main university in Columbia that was the scene of protests since last week.
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One of those threats that first appeared on said: “Some of you are alright”. One warned students not to go to campus today.
The message was posted Tuesday on Yik Yak and other social media sites threatening to “shoot every black person I see”.
Another allegedly said, “Well tomorrow Mizzou will really make national news”.
This was illustrated late Tuesday night after a journalist, Tim Tai, stood his ground and asserted his right to take pictures of a campus protest.
“As a student affairs professional, I take my responsibility to students very seriously”, she said. “As a campus, we are grateful that this situation did not escalate”. Black students had described being subjected to racist insults and targeted by campus police and white fraternities.
The School of Journalism made the announcement in a statement this morning.
Only 66 of those schools had 10 percent or more black faculty members.
After weeks of racially charged protests on campus, Tim Wolfe, University of Missouri system president, resigned on Monday after being besieged by student protestors who accused the university leadership of enabling racial tensions. “Please, please use this resignation to heal, not to hate”. By Sunday, more members of the team and head coach Gary Pinkel publicly supported the players.
KOMU 8 reported the university has not accepted the offer from Brigham.
According to NBC News, on Monday, the school’s president and chancellor stepped down amid the racial unrest at the university.
A majority of the approximately 35,000 students at the university in Columbia, about 125 miles west of St. Louis, is white.
And while former university president Sally Mason formed the Black Student Advisory Committee following the incident, Bruce said he hasn’t seen any progress from the group.
“Threats of violence of any kind are not tolerated”, Missouri S&T Chancellor Cheryl B. Schrader said in a statement, according to The Washington Post. “Did you just blame black students?” Authorities said that this threat did not specifically mention the University of Missouri.
CBS Jefferson City, Missouri affiliate KRCG- TV quotes Weimer as saying there was also a threat called in to the Black Culture Center on campus.
Mizzou is a nickname for the University of Missouri, which has been the scene of demonstrations this week over instances of racism, and dissatisfaction with the responses of university administrators.
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The messages came amid heightened racial tension and protests at the university, which saw the school’s embattled president step down earlier this week.
