A college student says campus police were called on her while she was eating a sandwich: 'All I did was be black'
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- A Smith College student says that campus police were called on her while she was eating her lunch on campus on Tuesday afternoon.
- Oumou Kanoute, a college student working at the school over the summer, wrote on Facebook that she was taking her lunch break when the campus police were called on her.
- "This person didn't try to bring their concerns forward to me, but instead decided to call the police. I did nothing wrong, I wasn't making any noise or bothering anyone. All I did was be black," she wrote on Facebook.
- Smith College has since released a statement saying that incident has "raised concerns in our community about bias and equity."
- Due to college policy, the school has not released the name of the person who called the campus police.
- A representative for Smith College told INSIDER that the incident is still under active investigation.
A Smith College student says that the school's campus police were called on her while she was eating her lunch in a common space on campus on Tuesday afternoon, as MassLive first reported.
Oumou Kanoute, an undergraduate student working at the school this summer as a teaching assistant and resident advisor, wrote on Facebook that she was taking her lunch break when campus police were called on her.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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