Maryland’s black students pepper-sprayed at grad party, university responds
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The University of Maryland's president says campus officers' use of pepper spray while breaking up a graduation party attended primarily by African-American students compels the school to confront the reality of bias that people of color face...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The University of Maryland’s president says campus officers’ use of pepper spray while breaking up a graduation party attended primarily by African-American students compels the school to confront the reality of bias that people of color face.
President Wallace Loh said in a statement Thursday that a routine review of the use of force is underway. Loh calls diversity “essential” to the university’s mission and says his staff met with students who were at the party and shared their “anguish.”
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This is going on right now at the University of Maryland. Students are getting peppered spray and beaten pic.twitter.com/ZSQ6X9gdEw
— XecutiVe (@CEORaph) May 21, 2016
— XecutiVe (@CEORaph) May 21, 2016
–Video Shows Female Student Being Pepper Sprayed by Detroit School Security Officer
As people are leaving the party the police start pepper spraying for no reason… pic.twitter.com/03dNmmxuAG
— XecutiVe (@CEORaph) May 21, 2016
As people are leaving the party the police start pepper spraying for no reason… pic.twitter.com/03dNmmxuAG
— XecutiVe (@CEORaph) May 21, 2016
This is how @UMPD handles situations: Breaking and entering.
Pepper spray.
Assault.
Malicious threats. pic.twitter.com/Ug43VyaWhO— Theós (@_zensei) May 21, 2016
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University police have said officers responded to a report of a fight Sunday and tried to get people to leave the party. Police say pepper spray was used when an officer was surrounded in a hallway and during a parking lot confrontation. Videos posted online show people screaming and coughing.
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