Student arrested following threat to “shoot up” CSU campus early Monday

An official with the University of Missouri Police Department refuted the claim a short time later, telling TheBlaze there is “no Ku Klux Klan on campus”. Outrage by protesters was largely ignored until 30 black members of the football team threatened to boycott an upcoming game – which would have reportedly caused a loss of $1 million for the university. By Monday, both the school’s chancellor and president had resigned, and a new vice-chancellor of diversity had been appointed. The number of upvotes is displayed to the right of each message.

Not a student in sight.

Another University of Missouri online threat posted to social media read, “Some of you are alright”.

Police were made aware of the social media post overnight and issued an alert to students.

“I’m going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see”, Park said in a message circulated on the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak.

“If you don’t feel safe coming to class, then don’t come to class. I will be there, and there will be an exam administered in our class”, he wrote in one email. “Don’t go to campus tomorrow”, said the second, echoing a warning posted to 4chan the day before the Umpqua Community College shooting last month.

The student, JaShkira Dela Rosa, 23, was arrested Monday and faces a charge of threats to use a destructive device, according to North Charleston Police spokesman Spencer Pryor.

Hunter Michael Park, 19.

At the same time, reporters used Yik Yak to learn that Sen. “Yik Yak works alongside local authorities to help in investigations, and we may share information with law enforcement as set forth in our privacy policy and legal page”.

Security at Mizzou was heightened yesterday due to the threats.

Image courtesy of University of Missouri. The group has organized protests on campus since October. The school said on Twitter that it would activate its alert system in the event of an actual emergency. A university police official told HuffPost it was investigating the threats. Yik Yak has since marked the app 17+ in the Apple and Google Play stores, a feature that allows parents to block younger kids from downloading it. They also partnered with a company called Maponics to draw “geofences” around elementary, middle and high schools, effectively making the app unavailable within a given distance from that location.

“It’s really disheartening and proves the point of why these protests and boycotts were necessary”, Gaby Rodriguez told the AP about the threats. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt this unsafe at Mizzou”.

Even on Tuesday night, a few reported incidents of threat or intimidation on campus.

Tensions have run high since Mizzou graduate student Jonathan Butler started a week-long hunger strike that led to the Wolfe/Loftin resignations.

Such sentiments were mixed with mundane college talk.