The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has apologized after a video was posted online showing a Sikh student who was handcuffed for carrying a kirpan, a religious article that resembles a knife.
released Friday, signed by the chancellor, Sharon L. Gaber, and Brandon L. Wolfe, the school's chief diversity officer, said that university police had received a 911 call on Thursday that someone was in the student union with a knife.
Video of the incident was posted on the Twitter account @thatsamaan, and its user identified himself as the student in question. The post was widely shared on Twitter and Instagram. NBC News was unable to independently verify the Twitter account. The police officer told the student to stand up and the student asked, “What are you doing to me, bro?” before the officer told him he was being detained.to carry or maintain the five articles of the Sikh faith: kesh , kara , kanga , kachera and a kirpan .
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