Another "Hate Crime Hoax" (Trinity International University)
The school administration responded by evacuating all 200 black students on campus for their safety. No doubt, mandatory diversity training was being considered. It turns out that a black female student has confessed to sending the letters. This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened recently. Will these latest revelations receive the same national coverage as the original story? In light of all the inconvenience experienced by the students, evacuated or otherwise, the comments of Lt. Ron Price (shown below) seem overly complacent to say the least.
Police said Hardin wanted to transfer to a different school because she was unhappy at Trinity but her parents would not let her. The letters, police said, were her way of implying the campus was not safe.
Hardin appeared at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan Tuesday morning on a charge of disorderly conduct and a hate crime charge. Bond was set at $5,000.
“This was her way out of it,” said Lt. Ron Price of the Bannockburn police. “This was just a prank by someone who was very unhappy and it got out of control. There was no weapon and no one was ever in any real danger.”
Alicia Hardin, 19, of Dolton, confessed Monday to members of a task force investigating the matter that she mailed the three letters.