Twitter threats to black Kean students made by black alum, police say

By Jessica Remo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

December 01, 2015 at 1:12 PM, updated December 02, 2015 at 1:16 PM

UPDATE, Wednesday: Kean alum accused of Twitter threats says she's getting death threats: police

UPDATE, Tuesday afternoon: Threats won't 'tear us apart,' Kean president tells students

ELIZABETH — A recent Kean graduate has been charged with being responsible for a series of tweets threatening black students at the school two weeks ago, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Tuesday.

Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, of Union – a black alum who graduated in May – was charged by summons with third-degree creating a false public alarm. 

Students react after Kean Twitter threat
Kean students react and sound-off after an anonymous Twitter user sent messages threatening to shoot black students at the university.

Park said an investigation by the Union County Prosecutor's Office's Special Prosecutions Unit and Kean University police found that McKelvey, a self-proclaimed activist, participated in a student rally to raise awareness of racism on college campuses on Nov. 17, but left midway through and walked to a computer station in a university library.

Once there, McKelvey allegedly created an anonymous Twitter account –  @keanuagainstblk – and began posting threats of violence against black Kean students.

The first message around 10 p.m. said "kean university twitter against blacks is for everyone who hates blacks people" and a tweet about there being a bomb on the campus, and then continued with several other tweets about shooting black students at the university.

 
After making the posts, McKelvey returned to the rally and spread awareness of the threats, authorities said.

That night on McKelvey's personal Twitter account, which has since been deleted, she posted photos of the rally and screenshots of the tweets.

#PrayForKeanUniversity #KeanUniversityThreats #StudentBlackout #ConcernedStudent1950 pic.twitter.com/YQxSQu3GyM

— IG Ohhshebajan (@ACaribbeanDream) November 18, 2015
The university said approximately 100 students participated in "a peaceful rally" on campus that night with 10 students spending the night at the clock tower, "joining students across the nation to raise awareness of recent racial unrest at the University of Missouri and other college campuses."

According to McKelvey's LinkedIn profile, she graduated from Kean this May with a degree in Global Fitness and Wellness and currently works as a personal trainer. She was also the school's 2014 homecoming queen and president of the Pan African Student Union, according to her profile.


Kean Twitter threat: I will shoot black students at Kean University

A March article by Kean's student newspaper the Tower says McKelvey was also the organizer of a rally based on allegations of racism against a professor and Kean's Student Organization, but that "little to no evidence emerged to support the claims."

In response to the announcement of the charge, Kean released the following statement:

"We are saddened to learn that the person allegedly responsible was an active participant in the rally that took place on campus on Tuesday, November 17 and is a former student of Kean. As a diverse academic community, we wholeheartedly respect and support activism, however, no cause or issue gives anyone the right to threaten the safety of others. We hope this information will begin to bring a sense of relief and security to the campus community."

Kean University president speaks to students about Twitter threats
Kean University President Dawood Farahi speaks about the recent series of tweets threatening black students at the university. Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, of Union, a recent Kean graduate has been charged by summons with third-degree creating a false public alarm. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Kean President Dawood Farahi spoke to students Tuesday afternoon during a previously planned campus discussion at the student center.

He called the tweets a "heinous crime" and said, "We are saddened the person allegedly responsible was an active participant (of the demonstration) and a former student. No cause, no cause, can give anybody the right to threaten others."

Death threats reported against woman in Kean U Twitter hoax

The investigation also revealed that there was never any plan to harm students, the prosecutor's office said.
 
First court appearance is December 14 th.


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updates from Tuesday & Wednesday, pics & copies of tweets*

She passed Liberal 101...if theres not an issue, make one up and profit.

It boggles the mind.

Did she hear horror bedtimes stories everynight as a child from 50+ years ago?

Is it Andy Warhol's theroy of 15 min. of fame.

Drama /chaos addiction ?

Does she think she will be written in a history book.

WTF !?

Drama in one

Connecticut ex-officer who found racist letter charged with planting it

By: The Associated Press

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 - 2:26 p.m.

BRIDGEPORT >> A former police officer in Connecticut who reported finding a letter disparaging black officers has been arrested on charges he planted the note himself.

Clive Higgins was arrested Wednesday on a charge of second-degree falsely reporting an incident.

Higgins reported finding the threatening letter Feb. 9 inside his mailbox at the Bridgeport Police Department. Higgins, who is black, said the note written on police letterhead made him fear for his life and showed there was discrimination inside the department.

A Connecticut State Police investigator wrote in an affidavit the 50-year-old Higgins admitted during an interview he had typed the letter himself.

Higgins was acquitted in January in the beating of a Hispanic suspect in which two other officers pleaded guilty. He resigned in July.

A phone number listed for Higgins was not in service.

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20151202/connecticut-ex-officer-who-found-racist-letter-charged-with-planting-it /
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This story was ONLY published in (3) Connecticut newspapers.
* Why am I not surprised ? *