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Trump chalking by College Republicans is a 'hate crime,' black students claim

• prisonplanet.com

DePaul University's Black Student Union accused its College Republicans (CRs) of a hate crime because they organized the April 4 chalking outside the Student Center, with messages that alluded to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and praised police and Israel.

Though BSU representative Michael Lynch told The College Fix that he filed a hate-crime report against the CRs, both the DePaul administration and Public Safety department toldThe Fix they had not received any such report from Lynch.

In a campuswide email Monday obtained by The Fix, Vice President for Student Affairs Eugene Zdziarski said "many students, faculty and staff found the chalk messages offensive, hurtful and divisive."

They also violated campus regulations by endangering DePaul's tax-exempt status, he said – a claim that has been repeatedly challenged by a free-speech legal advocacy group.


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