Racially charged incidents reported
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA
A student at the University of Oklahoma has been temporarily suspended, and police are investigating a threat against a Muslim student near the University of Michigan amid racially charged outbursts at schools and universities across the country after Donald Trump’s presidential election.
The Associated Press and other local media outlets identified several reports of racist incidents at schools since Tuesday, including a group chat that the Oklahoma student got involved with aimed at black freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania, Trump’s alma mater.
The chat contained “violent, racist and thoroughly disgusting images and messages,” and Penn is “appalled” its students were added to the GroupMe account,” UPenn President Amy Gutmann said.
Gutmann said UPenn police have been working with the FBI. She earlier said officials had increased campus safety and were “reaching out to support the affected students.”
University of Oklahoma President David Boren in a statement said the student has been temporarily suspended as the school investigates further.
“It would appear this matter did not originate at the University of Oklahoma, but started elsewhere,” Boren said in a statement.
In Ann Arbor, Mich., police are looking into a report of a man who threatened to set a Muslim student on fire with a lighter if she didn’t remove her hijab Friday.