"This could have been a Breonna Taylor circumstance," attorney Randall Kallinen said of the incident involving his client, Christin Evans.
A Black college student in Texas said campus police stormed into her dorm room with their guns drawn after a group of mostly white students falsely accused her of a crime.
"This could have been a Breonna Taylor circumstance," Kallinen said, referring to the 26-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville police in March during a drug raid at her home. Kallinen told NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston that he believes the incident was racially motivated. In a press release, he accused the students of"swatting," a dangerous prank that involves someone making a false report in an attempt to get a police response at another person's address.
The university president said in a statement posted on Twitter on Monday that the school"takes this matter very seriously" and it is under investigation.
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