Students began protesting Daniel Hect after they discovered that he had liked tweets supporting President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association.
Massachusetts’ Mount Holyoke College and Smith College announced on Wednesday that Daniel Hect, their new joint campus police chief, has been placed on administrative leave after his social media activity sparked a backlash among the school’s students.
Shortly after, students from Mount Holyoke and Smith College began looking into Hect’s Twitter history and noticed some controversial activity. According to Smith’s student newspaper The Sophian, students discovered that the official has liked tweets “almost exclusively in response to President Trump’s tweets and included anti-immigrant, pro-gun rights and racist sentiments.” Hect was also found to have liked various miscellaneous messages from the National Rifle Association .
In a statement emailed to Smith college on Wednesday, the institution’s president Kathleen McCarthy noted that students “have voiced a lack of trust” in Hect. “In light of these concerns, the colleges have placed Chief Hect on administrative leave,” she said. “We are working together with Mount Holyoke on next steps. I pledge to keep the campus community informed.”
Deputy Campus Police Chief Ray LaBarre has been appointed Acting Chief of Campus Police while Hect is on leave.
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