Students Angry Over Chancellor Mourning Police Deaths

In 2016, after the Dallas cop-killings, the Chancellor of Ole Miss Jeff Vitter tweeted support for those lost in the killings. Vitter tweeted, ““Ole Miss hearts heavy with the news of the tragedy in Dallas. Sending our thoughts and our prayers”. At an event a few days later, “Students and faculty” were “expressing disgust with the university’s Chancellor for offering condolences to the Dallas shooting victims without mentioning other recent shootings…students and faculty gathered to reflect on and discuss the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, with several attendees taking the opportunity to complain that the administration has been insufficiently sympathetic with respect to those incidents” according to Campus Reform. The forum, offered by a diversity department at the school, involved students complaining that Vitter had not addressed other tragedies involving black victims. However, Vitter indeed wrote in a blog post a few days earlier about the tragedies.

Sources: http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7853

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