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The Black Student Union at Kansas State University is demanding local police file charges against a black man who vandalized his own car with racist graffiti and filed a false police report about it, Campus Reform reports.
Dauntarius Williams, 21, also claimed to be a student despite there being no record of him being enrolled at the university.
“Go Home N***er Boy,” “Whites only,” and “Date your own kind” are just a few phrases Dauntarius Williams painted onto his car as part of what he called a “Halloween prank” after police discovered that he had lied, MRCTV reported.
The police decided not to charge Williams for filing a false police report since he appeared to be “remorseful” over the incident.
The Black Student Union at KSU, however, is not willing to let Williams’ actions go unpunished.
In a statement posted onto Facebook this week, the student organization says it is “appalled, disgusted and hurt by the false report” and calls for the police to file criminal charges against Williams.
“The K-State Black Student Union is disheartened that no charges were filed by the Riley County Police Department,” the statement reads. “We believe that criminal charges should be filed and this would be in the best interest of the Manhattan community. The fact that an African American man committed this act should not undermine its effect on K-State students.”
“The conduct of Mr. Williams does not negate the current racist and discriminatory behavior towards a group,” the group goes on. “No matter who wrote the despicable and hateful speech, we, the K-State Black Student Union will never stand for hate or threatening speech.”
“We urge the Riley County Police Department to strongly reconsider pressing charges against Mr. Williams,” the K-State Black Student Union writes.
Williams apologized in a public police statement, saying that the graffiti “was just a Halloween prank that got out of hand.”
The Riley County police director Brad Schoen said that, “while Williams’ mistake had a decidedly negative impact on the community,” he is just “a young man who made a mistake and is now doing his best to own up to it.”
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