Posted on 11/11/2015 10:59:34 AM PST by Sopater
Something stinks at the University of Missouri. A reported incident of vandalism at Mizzou sparked university-wide protests, a boycott by the school’s 4-5 football team, and eventually the resignation of the university’s president and chancellor.
There’s only one problem: no evidence of the alleged incident, in which a poop swastika on the wall of a dormitory restroom was reported, has ever been made publicly available. Did this incident occur as reported, or was it an immaculate defecation that formed the foundation of an unimaginable deception?
According to Billy Donley, the president of Mizzou’s Residence Halls Association (RHA), the poop swastika was reported at approximately 2:00 a.m. on October 24, 2015.
“On Saturday, October 24th, at 2:00am an individual came into one of the restrooms in Gateway Hall and drew a swastika on the wall with their own feces,†Donley wrote in a letter several days after the alleged incident. “This event happened while many students, including myself, were already asleep.â€
Later in his letter, Donley noted that he only found out about the alleged vandalism incident “via a flyer posted on the walls†of the dorm.
Although Donley did not respond to repeated requests for comment prior to publication, The Federalist spoke with two RHA staffers while trying to get in touch with Donley. Neither had personally witnessed the poop swastika. When asked if there was any photographic evidence of the alleged incident, one staffer replied, “Not to my knowledge.â€
Frankie Minor, the director of residential life at Mizzou, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on whether he personally saw the poop swastika or any photographic evidence of it.
The Federalist also attempted to contact Christian Basi, the associate director of the University of Missouri News Bureau, who previously told the Columbia Missourian on Oct. 30 that the incident had been immediately reported to Mizzou police. Basi did not respond to requests for comment prior to the publication of this article.
Calls to the University of Missouri Police Department, which responded to and investigated the alleged poop swastika incident, also failed to yield any evidence of the poopstika.
Multiple activists on Twitter pointed to this photo as proof that the incident occurred as reported, but a Google search for the same image shows that it has been floating around the Internet for nearly a year. A reddit thread from November of 2014 appears to contain the earliest publication of the photo in question, meaning that it most certainly does not constitute proof of the incident alleged to have occurred at Mizzou on October 24, 2015.
Maj. Brian Weimer, the public information officer for the Mizzou police department, told The Federalist that he also did not personally see the poop swastika that was reported to police. When asked if anyone in the police department personally witnessed the swastika, Maj. Weimer clammed up and referred all questions about the incident to the university’s custodian of public records.
The Federalist also repeatedly contacted @ConcernedStudent1950, the Twitter account representing Mizzou protesters who issued a series of demands of university administrators after the alleged poop swastika incident made headlines. The individuals running the @CS1950 account failed to produce any photographic or documentary evidence of the incident prior to publication of this article.
While a mere absence of evidence is not synonymous with evidence of absence, the complete lack of any verifiable photographic evidence of the alleged poop swastika and the lack of any named eye witnesses raises serious questions about the veracity of a racially charged incident of vandalism that eventually led to the resignation of the University of Missouri’s two top administrators.
Did the incident happen as reported, or did two university administrators resign over protests that were sparked by a hoax? And if the incident did happen as reported, a proposition for which no publicly available evidence currently exists, how did university administrators and law enforcement authorities confirm that the vandalism was driven by racial animosity, as opposed to being promulgated as a public relations stunt meant to tar the university for failing to provide an environment free of racist invective? It would not be the first time a public university fell victim to a high profile PR stunt that was later revealed to be a fabrication. Either way, students, their parents, university employees, and Missouri taxpayers deserve solid, verifiable answers based on clear evidence about what exactly transpired in that Gateway Wall bathroom in the early morning of October 24.
Under the provisions of Missouri’s broad public records laws, The Federalist has requested from the University of Missouri copies of any and all records relating to the alleged vandalism, including any police or incident reports describing the investigation of the poop swastika by law enforcement authorities, as well as any photographic records of the alleged swastika, and will make that information available if and when it is received from university officials.
Not so, perhaps.
Yes....Next question.
I used to be in charge of maintenance in buildings open to the public.
Lemme tell ya....a poop swastika is probably the LEAST offensive thing you are going to find in a public restroom.
It certainly smells like a hoax
I think we need to look at this in a deeper light.
This is a purposely propagandized political movement to manufacture.
There are Democrat Party political operatives actively stoking this fake “racism” on Social Media. Black Lives matters, the MO college campus etc are being staged.
I don’t know how many of you have teenagers but my teenagers are upset almost daily but this Instagram or Snap Chat or Facebook posting about this or that supposed racial attack. Once this crap is posted, it goes viral almost instantly
Look the Left needs their voter base fired up in 2016. The bulkwork of Democrat votes is the Black vote. They won in 2008 and 2012 by turning our record number of black votes. In 2016 they have NO candidates who appeal to that voter block. The Leftist machine must find a way to fire up that base. These fake “racists” attacks are the tool they are using.
We need some investigative reporters to start digging hard into this. I suspect you will find that these “racist reports”are being purposefully fed into social media by a very very few sources
My guess is that it either never happened or that it was done by some liberal trying to invent a “hate crime”.
If it was shaped like a hammer and sickle, they would’ve bowed down and worshiped it.
My mistake, it seems this is a duplicate post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3358561/posts
My search for “poop” didn’t initially reveal this earlier post.
Please delete this one.
“Something stinks at the University of Missouri. “
Liberals. Always.
Put them in cages and throw poop it them.
They're afraid that the KKK might be lurking, but they openly support the equally racist groups blacklivesmatter and La Raza.
Curious, a bit of a conundrum.
I bet his goofy hat cost as much as my first car...
It’s the seriousness of the allegation that counts.
Who pooped on the wall? A perfectly formed swastika, at that! Who cleaned up the mess? No student I know of would have cleaned it up. Wouldn’t it have left a stain?
Driving back from lunch, I saw a poop clenched fist.
I was offended, and scared...and nobody can disprove this.
“My search for “poop—
www.poopreport.com
Search over ;)
Where did he get the elmer fudd hat?
Yes, and the KKK myth was REPEATED by the class president! The administration did nothing to refute the agitator’s lies.
LOL. I see what you did there ...
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