Seven states qualify for secession response from White House
The petitions for secession from the U.S.
filed by Texas, Louisiana, and five other states have collected more
than 25,000 signatures each, which the White House website says is
enough for review and response.
The petitions, which have been signed by a small percentage of state residents, have virtually no chance of succeeding. The United States' bloodiest conflict, the 1861-1865 Civil War, erupted after 11 states withdrew from the union.
The White House has set up a "We the People" page on its website that allows Americans to file petitions on issues of concern. If a petition collects 25,000 signatures, the website says, the administration will review and respond to it.
The petition filed by Texas residents has racked up about 100,000 signatures. Six others from Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee have collected 30,000.
Among the seven states, only Florida gave its electoral votes to Democratic President Barack Obama in last week's election.
The Texas petition says the United States is suffering from economic troubles stemming from the federal government's failure to reform spending. It also complains of alleged rights abuses committed by agencies like the Transportation Security Administration.
"Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union," it said.
A
counter-petition has been filed calling for the state capital Austin to
secede from Texas and remain part of the United States.
Hơn 100.000 người dân Mỹ gửi đơn tới Nhà Trắng để yêu
cầu chính phủ cho phép bang của họ tách khỏi liên bang, sau khi Tổng
thống Barack Obama tái đắc cử.
13/11/2012- Người dân Mỹ gửi hơn 20 đơn tập thể tới trang "We the
People" của chính phủ Mỹ. Phần lớn người gửi đơn sống tại 20 bang ủng hộ
ông Mitt Romney, ứng cử viên đảng Cộng hòa trong cuộc bầu cử vừa qua,
như Arkansas, Nam Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, AP đưa tin.
Hiến pháp Mỹ không có bất kỳ điều khoản nào cho phép
các bang rời khỏi liên bang. Phần lớn đơn chỉ trích dẫn dòng đầu tiên
trong Tuyên ngôn Độc lập Mỹ, theo đó người dân có quyền xóa bỏ các mối
liên kết chính trị và lập một quốc gia mới.
Lá đơn từ bang Texas có tới hơn 25.000 chữ ký - số
lượng chữ ký lớn nhất trong số các đơn. Trong cuộc bầu cử hôm 6/11, ông
Romney giành được nhiều hơn Tổng thống Obama 15% số phiếu tại bang
Texas.
Tình trạng các bang ly khai khỏi Mỹ từng xảy ra sau
khi Tổng thống Abraham Lincoln thắng cử vào năm 1860. Nó đã dẫn đến cuộc
nội chiến Mỹ vào năm 1861.
Kỳ thị gây sốc sau khi Obama tái đắc cử
A 22-year-old woman has been fired from her job and reported to the Secret Service after writing on her Facebook page her hopes that President Obama is assassinated in his second term in office.
'And another 4 years of the n*****. Maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!' Denise Helms of Turlock, California wrote immediately after the president's re-election on Tuesday.
It didn't take long for her post to circulate, angering enough readers to report her to authorities who accuse her of threatening the president's life.
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'I didn't think it'd be that big of a deal,' she told KTXL on Thursday while visibly shaken up, but unapologetic and unsure of what she did wrong.
'The assassination part is harsh and I'm not saying that I would go and do that or anything like that by any means but if it was to happen I don't think I would care one bit,' she said.
Now fired from her job at a local Cold Stone Creamery on Thursday, the post was described as disgusting by the store's director who told the Modesto Bee that when he arrived to work he had more than 20 angry voice messages on his company’s machine directed toward Ms Helms.
‘We made the decision because of her comments, but also the community feedback,' said Director Chris Kegle who had employed Ms Helms for less than one year.
'We are very into working with
the community and doing community service. So when your community does
not like you because of an employee, that's bad. We have a business to
run.'
Despite all this, she said she wouldn't take her comments back.
'He has done absolutely nothing for this country,' she explained.
The Modesto Bee reports Ms Helms being a fan of Republican rival Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s campaign according to her Facebook page but report her not registered in the state’s registry to vote.
Asked by KTXL if she’s racist after additionally using the N-word in referring to Obama, she defended herself as not, but also didn't disagree with herself using it.
That disagreement was in sharp contrast to Twitter users across the country, however, who angrily branded her Facebook post among a list of others titled: 'Yes, You're Racist.'
Some even shared their own hinted threats against Ms Helms as well.
‘I jst [sic] got a sweet tooth! how does ice cream from Cold Stone in Turlock California in the month of November sound?’ one woman wrote.
Secret Service Agent Scott Gillingham in Sacramento says Ms Helms’ post is being investigated with threats against the president having the potential to lead to felony charges.
With failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney unable to repeal health care reform, Papa John's CEO John Schnatter said he plans on taking the costs out of his workers.
Schnatter said he will probably cut worker's hours because President Obama was re-elected, according to the Naples News.
'That's what you do, is you pass on the costs,' Schnatter told Naples. 'Unfortunately, I don't think people know what they're going to pay for this.'
Though Schnatter has waffled on
the Affordable Care Act, alternately agreeing that 'the good news is
100 per cent of the population is going to have health insurance' and
throwing fundraisers for Romney as the then-candidate promised to repeal
Obamacare,
Still, his announcement should not shock his employees as Schnatter has said he would find a way to make up the costs of health care reform on several occasions, telling shareholders this summer that the cost of a Papa John's pizza could increase by 11 to 14 cents.
'I got in a bunch of trouble for this,' he said, referencing that promise.
Schnatter isn't alone among chain restaurants looking to balance the costs of health care reform.
As the program mandates that only employees working more than 30 hours a week are covered under their employers health insurance plan, chains like Olive Garden and Red Lobster are already considering reduced worker hours.
Even harsher reactions came from Zane Tankel, an Applebee's franchisee owner who said he would go on a hiring freeze and a Georgia business owner cut employees he believed voted for Obama.
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A great deal of Americans were justifiably upset when Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost the election.
But rather than using social media to express their frustration and disappointment in an elegant way, many Twitter users instead used the platform to post shockingly racist tweets, calling President Obama a ‘n*****’ and a ‘monkey.’
A map collected by Floating Sheep, a collective of geography academics, shows the shocking demographic of racist 'hate tweets,' many of them collected from states that were won by Romney.
The majority of the tweets, as Jezebel noted, were often from young white residents in southern states. MailOnline has chosen not to name these social media users.
One male user wrote on Election Day following Romney’s loss: ‘Ok we pick a worthless n***** over a full blooded American what the h*** has our world come its (sic) called the white house for a reason.’
Another wrote: ‘F*** you, Obama. Your (sic) a stupid n***** and you don’t do anything good for our country.’
Using geodata called DOLLY (Data On Local Life and You), Floating Sheep mapped out tweets beginning November 1. They then calculated the percentage of each state’s so-called hate tweets in relation to the gross number of tweets coming out of that state.
The map also reveals other southern states like Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas had their fair share of people tweeting bigoted things. Floating Sheep noted that both the East and West coast had a lower number of such tweets.
The site noted, too, that the
phenomenon wasn’t only in the south – a series of racist tweets trickled
up the Eastern Seaboard, and could also be found in Utah and Missouri.
While it was not openly addressed by the candidates on the campaign trail, political pundits have insisted that demographics and race played a huge role in helping Obama keep the White House.
On Election Day, a riot broke out at The University of Mississippi - known as Ole Miss - as more than 400 students yelled out racial slurs and burned Obama-Biden campaign posters after the Democratic incumbent was crowned the victor.
Emotions ran high among the angered college conservatives in Oxford, Mississippi, with university police being called in shortly after midnight to diffuse the crowd.
The incident began as a small
gathering of frustrated voters, meeting to share their misery at Obama
getting another four years in office, shortly after midnight.
But word soon spread over social media and the crowd began to swell to hundreds of students, yelling out racial slurs, chanting anti-Obama rhetoric and some reportedly throwing rocks at cars.
Police were called and told the crowd to go home but their presence only attracted more attention and the mass began to multiply.
Two students were arrested in the fracas, one for public intoxication and one for failure to comply with police orders, the university confirmed.
'Disperse or go to jail,' University Police Department officers told the crowd, according to the student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian.
But Ole Miss student Nicholas Carr tweeted that the whole thing was being overblown, saying that more people were taking pictures of the so-called riot than actually joining in on the chanting.
'I was there the whole time. No rocks were thrown. There was 1 sign lit on fire. For about 45 seconds,' Carr wrote.
'Mostly, it was 100s of college kids who heard the word riot and ran to take pictures and see what it was about. Again, no rocks or missiles thrown.'
But the school's administration confronted students on Wednesday and blasted Tuesday's behavior as 'a very immature and uncivil approach to expressing their views about the election,' University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones said in statement
'The gathering seems to have been fueled by social media, and the conversation should have stayed there.'
| Trên 20 tiểu bang Hoa Kỳ ký thỉnh nguyện thư xin tách ra khỏi Hiệp chủng quốc Hoa Kỳ |
| Monday, 12 November 2012 20:57 |
Cali Today News – Theo sau cuộc bầu cử tổng thống
Hoa Kỳ vào tuần qua, hàng ngàn người Mỹ đã ký thỉnh nguyện thư để xin
tách tiểu bang của họ ra khỏi Hiệp chủng quốc Hoa Kỳ. Thỉnh nguyện thư
này được nộp qua website We the People, một website của chính phủ mà
cộng đồng người Việt từng ký trong chiến dịch ký thỉnh nguyện thư yêu
cầu chính phủ Hoa Kỳ can thiệp nhà cầm quyền Hà Nội trả tự do cho nhạc
sĩ Việt Khang.
Những tiểu bang có cử tri ký thỉnh nguyện thư gồm:  Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina,
Tennessee và Texas.
Khá lạ là các cử tri tại Georgia đã lập ra 2 thỉnh nguyện thư.
Không phải chỉ có những tiểu bang mà Romney thất cử mới lập ra thỉnh
nguyện thư mà một số tiểu bang Obama thắng cử cũng lập thỉnh nguyện thư.
Nhiều Tiểu Bang xin tách ra khỏi Hiệp chủng quốc Hoa Kỳ. Photo: Thenews.com
Các thỉnh nguyện thư được viết ngắn nhưng đi thẳng vào vấn đề. Ví dụ
như tiểu bang của những thiện nguyện viên, chính là Tennissee, đã viết:
“Xin hãy trao cho tiểu bang Tennissee rút ra khỏi Hiệp chủng quốc Hoa Kỳ
và lập chính phủ mới riêng cho tiểu bang.
Trong số hơn 20 thỉnh nguyện thư nói trên, chỉ có Texas là có nhiều người ký nhất: Hiện với hơn 23 ngàn chữ ký.
Đương nhiên, điều này gần như chỉ có ý nghĩa biểu tượng. Xác suất mà
chính phủ Hoa Kỳ cho phép tiểu bang tách ra khỏi liên bang khó như trúng
số độc đắc vậy, hay giống như bị thiên thạch rơi xuống trúng phải vậy.
Có nghĩa là gần như không thể nào xảy ra.
Theo Giáo Sư khoa chính trị học của trường đại học University of
Louisville thì chuyện ký thỉnh nguyện thư như thế này không có gì lạ cả.
Những thỉnh nguyện thư tương tự từng được ký sau các cuộc bầu cử vào
năm 2004 hay 2008.
Theo quy định, bất cứ thỉnh nguyện thư nào thu thập trên 25 ngàn chữ ký, thì sẽ có ý kiến chính thức từ chính phủ của TT Obama.
Không phải bất cứ ai muốn ly khai ra khỏi liên bang đều tỏ ra lịch sự
trong khi viết thỉnh nguyện thư. Ông Peter Morrison, thủ quỹ của quận
hạt Hardin, đảng Cộng hoà của tiểu bang Texas, đã viết một lá thư hậu
tranh cử mà trong đó ông ta kêu gọi Texas tách rời khỏi Liên bang.
Trần Thị Sông Dinh |
Petition for Texas to secede from US reaches threshold for White House response
By Vignesh Ramachandran
An
online petition that calls for the state to Texas to withdraw from the
U.S. and create its own government on Monday reached the required
signature threshold to receive an official response from The White
House.
The petition on
WhiteHouse.gov asks the Obama administration to "peacefully grant the
State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create
its own new government." The petition had surpassed 34,000 signatures as
of Monday evening. It was created by a person self-identified only as
"Micah H." from Arlington, Texas.
The
petition cites the nation's economic woes as an issue and says that the
condition of Texas' budget and economy make it "practically feasible
for Texas to withdraw from the union."
Online petitions on WhiteHouse.gov that
get sufficient support are reviewed by White House staff and "sent to
the appropriate policy experts." To be searchable on WhiteHouse.gov in
the first place, petitions currently need to get 150 signatures within 30 days. To get an official response, petitions need 25,000 signatures within 30 days.
Similar
petitions from other states have also been filed including: Alabama,
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina and Tennessee. However, unlike the petition from Texas, none of
these states had reached the 25,000-signature threshold to get an
official White House response as of Monday evening.
According to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, a 1866 proclamation signed by then-President Andrew Johnson clearly spelled out that no state had the right to leave the union:
"...It
is the manifest determination of the American people that no State, of
its own will, has a right or power to go out of or separate itself from,
or be separated from the American Union; and that, therefore, each
State ought to remain and constitute an integral part of the United
States..."
The
flurry of petitions are likely just the consequence of voters unhappy
with last week's presidential election results. University of Texas at
Austin Assistant Professor Jason Casellas told NBC News that's likely
the case in Texas, where 57 percent of the state population's vote went for Republican Mitt Romney.
Catherine
Frazier, press secretary for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, told NBC News
Monday that the governor "believes in the greatness of our Union and
nothing should be done to change it."
"But
he also shares the frustrations many Americans have with our federal
government," Frazier said in a statement. "Now more than ever our
country needs strong leadership from states like Texas, that are making
tough decisions to live within their means, keep taxes low and provide
opportunities to job creators so their citizens can provide for their
families and prosper."
Đọc thêm Bài đã đăng: Kỳ thị gây sốc sau khi Obama tái đắc cử
Bị đuổi việc, viết trên Facebook là Obama có thể bị ám sát
'Maybe he will get assassinated this term!' Woman, 22, fired and reported to Secret Service after Facebook threat to Obama
- Denise Helms is under investigation by the Secret Service over her angry comment that also caused her to lose her job
- Helms has not apologized and claims no wrong doing
- She later said if the president were killed: 'I don't think I would care one bit'
A 22-year-old woman has been fired from her job and reported to the Secret Service after writing on her Facebook page her hopes that President Obama is assassinated in his second term in office.
'And another 4 years of the n*****. Maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!' Denise Helms of Turlock, California wrote immediately after the president's re-election on Tuesday.
It didn't take long for her post to circulate, angering enough readers to report her to authorities who accuse her of threatening the president's life.
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Under fire: Denise Helms has been fired from her
job at an ice cream shop and reported to Secret Service after writing
this post on her Facebook page hoping the president is assassinated
I'm innocent: Speaking about the incident on
Thursday Ms Helms, 22, was visibly shaken by it but said she was
surprised while believing she hasn't done anything wrong
'The assassination part is harsh and I'm not saying that I would go and do that or anything like that by any means but if it was to happen I don't think I would care one bit,' she said.
Now fired from her job at a local Cold Stone Creamery on Thursday, the post was described as disgusting by the store's director who told the Modesto Bee that when he arrived to work he had more than 20 angry voice messages on his company’s machine directed toward Ms Helms.
‘We made the decision because of her comments, but also the community feedback,' said Director Chris Kegle who had employed Ms Helms for less than one year.
Standing alone: Cold Stone Creamery called her
action disgusting and no reflection of their own views after receiving
angry calls to their store
Not taking it back: Ms Helms, seen behind the
ice cream counter, had worked for the company for less than a year
before being fired for something she hasn't apologized for
Despite all this, she said she wouldn't take her comments back.
Not registered: Ms Helms said Obama hasn't done
anything for the U.S. while according to state records she is not
registered to vote
The Modesto Bee reports Ms Helms being a fan of Republican rival Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s campaign according to her Facebook page but report her not registered in the state’s registry to vote.
Asked by KTXL if she’s racist after additionally using the N-word in referring to Obama, she defended herself as not, but also didn't disagree with herself using it.
That disagreement was in sharp contrast to Twitter users across the country, however, who angrily branded her Facebook post among a list of others titled: 'Yes, You're Racist.'
Some even shared their own hinted threats against Ms Helms as well.
‘I jst [sic] got a sweet tooth! how does ice cream from Cold Stone in Turlock California in the month of November sound?’ one woman wrote.
Secret Service Agent Scott Gillingham in Sacramento says Ms Helms’ post is being investigated with threats against the president having the potential to lead to felony charges.
Papa John's CEO to cut worker's hours because Obama was re-elected
With failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney unable to repeal health care reform, Papa John's CEO John Schnatter said he plans on taking the costs out of his workers.
Schnatter said he will probably cut worker's hours because President Obama was re-elected, according to the Naples News.
'That's what you do, is you pass on the costs,' Schnatter told Naples. 'Unfortunately, I don't think people know what they're going to pay for this.'
Cutting more than pizza: In the wake of
President Obama's reelection Papa John's CEO John Schnatter said he'll
cut worker's hours to pay for health care reform
Still, his announcement should not shock his employees as Schnatter has said he would find a way to make up the costs of health care reform on several occasions, telling shareholders this summer that the cost of a Papa John's pizza could increase by 11 to 14 cents.
'I got in a bunch of trouble for this,' he said, referencing that promise.
Losing jobs: One Applebees owner said he
wouldn't hire anyone else after Obama was re-elected while a Georgia
businessman laid off people who thought voted for the Democrat
Passing the cost to you: This summer the CEO said he'd raise the price of a pizza 11 to 14 cents if Obamacare wasn't repealed
As the program mandates that only employees working more than 30 hours a week are covered under their employers health insurance plan, chains like Olive Garden and Red Lobster are already considering reduced worker hours.
Even harsher reactions came from Zane Tankel, an Applebee's franchisee owner who said he would go on a hiring freeze and a Georgia business owner cut employees he believed voted for Obama.
Read more:
- Pizza Chain CEO: 'I Don't Think People Know What They're Going To Pay For' Obamacare
- Papa John's CEO: Obamacare likely to raise costs, result in employee's hours being cut
Thứ ba, 13/11/2012, Một phụ nữ mang thai điên cuồng lái xe đuổi theo chồng
và cuối cùng cán qua người anh này, trong cơn giận dữ vì Tổng thống
Barack Obama tái đắc cử.
> Kẻ khóc, người cười vì bầu cử> Trăm nghìn người đòi ly khai vì Obama
> Kẻ khóc, người cười vì bầu cử> Trăm nghìn người đòi ly khai vì Obama
 |
| Holly Solomon. Ảnh: opposingviews |
Huffington Post cho hay tối 10/11, Holly
Solomon, 28 tuổi, và chồng là Daniel Solomon tranh cãi gay gắt về chuyện
anh này không đi bỏ phiếu bầu tổng thống tại bang Arizona hôm 6/11.
Theo kết quả bầu cử, Mitt Romney dễ dàng dẫn điểm ở
Arizona trước Obama với tỷ lệ là 52% so với 44%, mà không cần đến phiếu
bầu của Daniel. Tuy nhiên, sự thật này dường như vẫn không làm Holly hài
lòng.
Các nhân chứng cho hay họ nghe thấy tiếng la hét rồi
nhìn thấy Holly lao lên chiếc xe jeep SUV của mình, đuổi theo Daniel
quanh bãi đỗ xe. Một lúc sau, Daniel núp vào một cột đèn, trong khi
Holly vừa điên cuồng lái xe vòng quanh anh vừa tiếp tục gào thét.
Khi Daniel tìm cách tháo chạy ra phía đường, cô vợ lập tức đuổi theo và cuối cùng, anh bị cán qua người.
Daniel hiện đang được chữa trị tại bệnh viện địa
phương trong tình trạng nguy kịch. Holly đã bị cảnh sát bắt giữ và buộc
tội bạo lực gia đình. Cảnh sát cho biết không có dấu hiệu của chất kích
thích trong vụ việc.
Theo ABC 15, Holly đang mang thai 6 tháng. Cô
rất giận dữ trước tin ông Obama tái đắc cử nhiệm kỳ thứ hai bởi cô tin
rằng tổng thống là căn nguyên dẫn đến những khó khăn của gia đình mình.
Chửi thề, gọi Obama là thằng mọi, là con khỉ, đốt bảng vận động tranh cử của Obama... và chửi luôn cả những người yêu thích Obama
The Racist States of America: Shocking map reveals hateful tweets following Obama's re-election
- Map shows how concentration of racist tweets about Obama were from heavily Republican states of Mississippi and Louisiana
- However, there were also racist tweets recorded in states like West Virginia, Ohio, and Missouri
- Map comes two days after massive riot at Ole Miss
- Administration condemned racial epithets and called for students to recommit themselves to tolerance
A great deal of Americans were justifiably upset when Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost the election.
But rather than using social media to express their frustration and disappointment in an elegant way, many Twitter users instead used the platform to post shockingly racist tweets, calling President Obama a ‘n*****’ and a ‘monkey.’
A map collected by Floating Sheep, a collective of geography academics, shows the shocking demographic of racist 'hate tweets,' many of them collected from states that were won by Romney.
Vitriol: Floating Sheep mapped out racist tweets
about Obama across the country, starting on November 1; Arkansas and
Mississippi had the highest concentration of such tweets
Look back in anger: Another Twitter user tweeted his thoughts
Profanity: Another Twitter user wrote that Americans were a bunch of 'G** d*** n***** lovers'
Popular vote: Many of the racist tweets came from heavily Republican areas that were won by Romney
One male user wrote on Election Day following Romney’s loss: ‘Ok we pick a worthless n***** over a full blooded American what the h*** has our world come its (sic) called the white house for a reason.’
Another wrote: ‘F*** you, Obama. Your (sic) a stupid n***** and you don’t do anything good for our country.’
Using geodata called DOLLY (Data On Local Life and You), Floating Sheep mapped out tweets beginning November 1. They then calculated the percentage of each state’s so-called hate tweets in relation to the gross number of tweets coming out of that state.
The map also reveals other southern states like Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas had their fair share of people tweeting bigoted things. Floating Sheep noted that both the East and West coast had a lower number of such tweets.
Vigil: A crowd participates in a candlelit vigil
titled 'We Are One Mississippi' at Ole Miss Wednesday night in response
to the Election Day protests
Causality: The vigil was in response to protests that happened on campus after President Obama was re-elected as president
While it was not openly addressed by the candidates on the campaign trail, political pundits have insisted that demographics and race played a huge role in helping Obama keep the White House.
On Election Day, a riot broke out at The University of Mississippi - known as Ole Miss - as more than 400 students yelled out racial slurs and burned Obama-Biden campaign posters after the Democratic incumbent was crowned the victor.
Emotions ran high among the angered college conservatives in Oxford, Mississippi, with university police being called in shortly after midnight to diffuse the crowd.
Riots: Ole Miss students took to the streets, burning Obama campaign posters after his reelection was announced
Outrage: Students chronicled the demonstrations against Obama's win on social media
But word soon spread over social media and the crowd began to swell to hundreds of students, yelling out racial slurs, chanting anti-Obama rhetoric and some reportedly throwing rocks at cars.
Police were called and told the crowd to go home but their presence only attracted more attention and the mass began to multiply.
Two students were arrested in the fracas, one for public intoxication and one for failure to comply with police orders, the university confirmed.
Disorder: Two students were arrested in the
campus riot at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. on Tuesday
night. An Ole Miss police officer escorts one student away from the
protest
But Ole Miss student Nicholas Carr tweeted that the whole thing was being overblown, saying that more people were taking pictures of the so-called riot than actually joining in on the chanting.
'I was there the whole time. No rocks were thrown. There was 1 sign lit on fire. For about 45 seconds,' Carr wrote.
'Mostly, it was 100s of college kids who heard the word riot and ran to take pictures and see what it was about. Again, no rocks or missiles thrown.'
But the school's administration confronted students on Wednesday and blasted Tuesday's behavior as 'a very immature and uncivil approach to expressing their views about the election,' University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones said in statement
'The gathering seems to have been fueled by social media, and the conversation should have stayed there.'
Protest: Two people were killed and 75 injured
in a riot on October 1st that erupted as James Meredith was ushered into
the University of Mississippi by federal marshals in 1972
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