Posted on 11/12/2015 7:44:41 AM PST by Sopater
On October 28, Mizzou student dorm association president Billy Donley dropped a bomb on his fellow students: somebody at the University of Missouri drew a swastika in one of the school’s dorms. Donley’s claim, which was later expanded to include allegations that the swastika was drawn with human feces, ignited a racial firestorm that eventually led to the resignations of Mizzou’s top two university administrators.
Unfortunately, there’s no publicly available evidence that this incident ever occurred.
By all accounts, Donley, a class of 2018 undergraduate student who serves as the president of the Mizzou Residence Halls Association (RHA), was the first person to publicly reference the poop swastika incident. That announcement occurred on Twitter on October 28.
On October 29, the first news article about the alleged incident appeared in The Maneater, a campus paper. The sole source for the factual claims asserted in the article appears to be a letter that Donley published on RHA letterhead earlier that day.
In that letter, Donley wrote that the alleged incident occurred at approximately 2:00 a.m. on October 24 in a bathroom inside Gateway Hall, a university dorm. The student dorm president also asserted in his letter that the swastika was not just drawn with feces, but that the perpetrator used his or her own feces to draw the swastika. Donley did not disclose how he came to determine that the poop was human, rather than canine or feline, for example, or that it belonged to the alleged suspect. Donley noted that he did not witness the poop swastika first-hand. Instead, he “found out via a flyer posted on the walls†of the dormitory, according to his letter.
On October 30, two more articles appeared in local papers that cover the University of Missouri. Each article repeated as fact the assertions contained in Donley’s October 29 letter.
Despite extensive efforts to elicit information from law enforcement authorities, university officials, and even dormitory custodial staff who would have been responsible for removing traces of the fecal vandalism, The Federalist has yet to verify any of the facts initially asserted by Donley.
Repeated phone calls and e-mails to Christian Basi, a university spokesman, went unreturned. Repeated phone calls and e-mails to Frankie Minor, the university employee who oversees all residential life operations, went unreturned.
Billy Donley also refused to return multiple phone calls and e-mails requesting clarifications on the alleged facts of the poop swastika incident. When The Federalist contacted the Mizzou police department requesting information on when officers first responded to the scene and whether they witnessed the poop swastika first-hand, the department spokesman referred all questions to the university’s office of public records.
When The Federalist contacted the custodial department tasked with cleaning and maintaining the university’s many dormitories, a maintenance department staffer referred all questions about the poop swastika incident to the university’s public relations department.
As of Wednesday, zero pictures of the alleged poop swastika have been released. Zero video evidence has been released. No suspects have been publicly identified. No eyewitnesses have publicly come forward to discuss the specifics of the alleged incident. In an age of constant selfies and ubiquitous smartphones, the lack of any photographic evidence of the poop swastika raises serious questions about whether the entire incident was a hoax.
On Wednesday morning, Rabia Gregory, a professor of religious studies at the University of Missouri, asserted on Twitter that one of her students saw the poop swastika first-hand. Unfortunately, Gregory refused to release the identity of the alleged eyewitness.
“I will not identify that student, Gregory wrote. “There have been too many incidents of violent harassment for that.â€
Gregory did not respond to phone calls or e-mails from The Federalist asking for information about the alleged eyewitness prior to the publication of this article.
Billy Donley, the RHA president who first started spreading allegations about a dorm bathroom poop swastika, appears to be an avid supporter of the campus protest movement whose demands, spurred in large part by news reports about the poop swastika, led to the resignations of the university’s president and chancellor. On November 6, Donley changed the cover photo on his Facebook page to the black and white logo for ConcernedStudent1950, the student protest group that spearheaded the protests that have consumed the Mizzou campus for weeks:
Donley has thus far refused to respond to any requests from The Federalist for comment on the incident or to provide any evidence that it occurred as reported. As of Wednesday morning, his personal Twitter account was locked and protected, a measure that prevents the public from viewing his tweets.
Under Missouri state law, it is against the law to falsely report a crime to law enforcement authorities. Individuals convicted of falsely reporting a crime to the police, a class B misdemeanor, may face up to six months in prison.
UPDATE: After this article was initially published, Prof. Rabia Gregory responded to The Federalist‘s inquiry for information about the eyewitness to whom she referred in her tweet.
“I actually can’t give out contact information of students without their permission due to how FERPA is interpreted in my college so even if I weren’t concerned for their safety I wouldn’t be able to put you in touch directly,†she wrote. “I will instead pass on your message both over email and in an announcement to both of my classes in a general way and ask that if anyone who was there is willing to speak with you about it they should do so.â€
“I think it would be a positive step to get this report verified and to urge campus police to continue their investigation.â€
[UPDATE 2:] Late Wednesday night, the Daily Caller obtained the police report of the October 24 incident, which corroborates the basic details of the incident asserted in Donley’s October 29 letter.
The police report, which can be read in full here, shows that an officer responded to a vandalism complaint at Gateway Hall, a Mizzou dormitory, at 2:12 a.m. on October 24, 2015.
“I noticed there was a swastika drawn on the wall by someone using feces,†the responding officer wrote in the report. “There was also feces on the floor located by the entry way to the restroom.â€
The bulk of the officer’s report is redacted. No suspects are listed, and no motivations for the fecal display are listed in the police report. The report does not include any photographic evidence of the poop swastika. Although the initial incident occurred in the early morning hours of October 24, the police report was not prepared and filed until the evening of October 29. An official investigator was assigned to the case on October 26, according to the report.
The statement that initially got my attention was when he said that “the perpetrator used his or her own feces to draw the swastika.”
Now just how would he know that?
Dropped a bomb? More like he dropped a deuce. Where is the DNA test result?
Spraintztika-gate
Disgusting, yes. Stupid, yes. Racial? Dangerous? ????
Let’s just say maybe not so much.
How did he know it was poop, and not mud or chocolate?
I think we need to look at this in a deeper light.
This is a purposely propagandized political movement to manufacture “racism”. 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
So, there is the proof... when seconds to get evidence and take pictures count, the police are only 5 days away.
Swastika, smoshtika, if the artist wanted to upset half the campus he should have taken his turd and written ‘0bama’ on the wall instead...
Who files a police report when somebody smears crap on the wall?
I hope Southpark picks up on the poop swastika.
“I hope Southpark picks up on the poop swastika.”
They’d probably make it a poop Mogen David...
How to burn the Reichstag without matches!
Does Mr. Hankey have an alibi?
If none of the custodians cleaned it up, it never happened.
Agreed, most all the garbage the left screams about on a daily basis is contrived and staged for consumption by an always-eager media. And when it’s proven false, it’s just oops, and then it’s off to the races for the next incident, which is a source of never-ending cannon fodder to harangue the right.
`Mein Kampf en Die Toilette’ by Adolf Donley
Morton DONLEY Jr.!
I am more disturbed by the fact this poopetrator is playing in poo than by the drawing being a swastika.
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