Black student beaten, kicked and called N-word, according to UA police report

[TexasTowelie]

Two white UA students punched and kicked a black student who they did not know and repeatedly called him the N-word, according to a campus police report obtained by the Arizona Daily Star late Friday.

The two white students, identified by police as Matthew Frazier and Matthew Rawlings, were arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor assault Friday morning, three days after the incident near the Arbol de la Vida dormitory. A hate crimes reporting guidelines worksheet was also completed by University of Arizona Police.

The two students were booked into the Pima County jail. UA police said the case would be forwarded to the Pima County Attorney’s Office to review for formal charges. Both students are listed as undergraduates in the business college.

The disclosure of the report came a few hours after more than 300 protesters flooded the UA campus demanding its release, as well as the expulsion of the two students, in an effort to hold the students, university and campus police accountable for a perceived lack of safety for black students on campus.

Read more: https://tucson.com/news/local/black-student-beaten-kicked-and-called-n-word-according-to/article_59458abd-2ac1-52d9-9baa-575db581ca65.html

[oasis]

1. More ugly evidence of Trump's toxicity. nt

[emmaverybo]

2. As horrible as this is, I am heartened by the response of 300 outraged students. I hope to God

the brutalized student finds some measure of comfort, as inadequate to his ordeal as it might be,
knowing that his fellows stand with and for him and against those two twisted and cowardly racists.

Misdemeanor? The two sick and sickening whites should have the book thrown at them.

Certainly Trump has emboldened such sickos. But their hatred represents the deep racism hundreds of years old that still survives, and under Trump thrives, in our country.

The two sub-humans should be driven into exile to perish slowly by thirst and hunger.

[PhoenixDem]

3. How horrible!!

And all this time I thought UA was a bastion of egalitarianism.