Yesterday, a Black student at HBCU Winston-Salem State University was arrested in class, as her classmates looked on in apparent horror. Hundreds of HBCU students and alumni are demanding answers.
In an Instagram Live, a girl who identified herself as the arrested student said the issue began over a class essay she refused to redo, even though she was told it would be detrimental to her grade. The student said the teacher had given her the feedback less than six hours before the paper was due, and she did not feel she had been given enough time to rework it.
“I’m not going back and redoing this essay that took me two weeks and you told me six hours before,” she said in the video. “And I still came to the final to present with my group because that was what we were supposed to do.” When the argument between herself and her teacher grew heated during group project presentations, the girl said she was told to apologize or leave the classroom. The student said she chose not to leave because the final was a large percentage of her grade — which was when a school employee called the police.
“I’m not gonna lie, I got loud back,” she said, in the now-deleted video. While police and school officials have not released the girl’s name,was able to confirm through social media that the student attends WSSU, and another student present in the class confirmed she was the one arrested. The student involved declined to comment to
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