Protests at Ithaca College as well.
http://theithacan.org/news/ithaca-colleg...ic-safety/
Apparently this is one of the incidents that are leading to the protests, officers doing their jobs and applying the law:
February Incident
On Feb. 2, one of Bunatal’s residents informed her of being racially slurred in an elevator.
Bunatal said her resident, a black woman, was in the West Tower elevator when two white, male students walked in.
The male students were using the N-word in their conversation, which made the resident uncomfortable.
As she left the elevator, she said, “Stupid white boys.”
One of them responded, “Fucking black bitch.”
Bunatal called the RA of the floor on which the men lived and said the RA quickly got a confession from one of his residents.
The female resident told Bunatal she was uncomfortable with calling Public Safety herself. Bunatal then enlisted the support of Singh and Aidoo to help with talking to Public Safety about the incident.
When Patrol Officer Eric Willman arrived, he told the resident and the three RAs that no action could be taken without also implicating the female resident as well.
An audio recording of the conversation provided by Bunatal includes a man identified as Willman saying that because the men’s use of the N-word wasn’t directed toward her, the resident couldn’t respond without also risking being judicially referred.
Aidoo said the officer was equating the comments made by the female resident to the use of racial and sexist slurs made by the male students.
“You cannot compare ‘stupid white boy’ to the comments made by them,” Aidoo said.
Bunatal said the incident was an example of Public Safety officers not being prepared to handle racial incidents, and Singh said the officer’s actions condoned the linguistic violence from the male students.