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Thursday, September 28, 2017

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Some dude pissed on a 'Black Lives Matter' chalk sign at U-M's Diag

Posted By Jack Roskopp on Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 1:03 PM

A video on Twitter surfaced Wednesday night showing a man urinating on a chalked "Black Lives Matter" sign that was in the middle of University of Michigan's famous Diag and police are looking for more information.

CW: anti- blackness
after Dana kneels in protest of racism at umich, white student pees on BLM chalk on diag. share widely to help identify pic.twitter.com/y5bQke0rIb
— kate (@mojit0mami) September 27, 2017

The Free Press reports that the "BLM" sign was chalked on the ground during daily protests that have been happening on the campus, which also included a graduate student taking a knee in the Diag for over 24 hours.

The University has had some recent outbreaks of racism on campus. Last week, a video surfaced online of a man calling a black man the n-word, and many racist acts of vandalism had appeared on campus, too.

Tags: University of Michigan, racist stuff on campus, Image

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