Well, according to post-modernist philosophy, some practitioners of which are employed at Yale -
It doesn’t matter whether this actually happened or not. According to someone’s subjective sensibility, this COULD have happened, and therefore the University has to deal with it. This is the way to social justice and political power for the oppressed.
There is no such thing as an objective fact, objective reality, equality before the law - those concepts are just tools used by the dominant class for oppression of minorities. All perception is subjective.
The various university officials must now prostrate themselves before the aggrieved snowflakes er students who are in deep pain. The aggrieved (and in pain) students will be issued whips and knouts for which to uh whip the officials with.
The officials will then guarantee the students that incidents like this will never happen again. Until the next hoax er I mean nasty, racist incident.