Yale Responds To Officer Holding Student At Gunpoint, Says It’s Not Ferguson

Yale University has responded to an incident in which a campus police officer held a black male student at gunpoint after thinking the student matched the description of a burglary suspect.

The student is the son of New York Times columnist Charles Blow. After tweeting that he was “fuming” over the incident, Blow wrote an article about his son’s encounter with the officer, explaining the student was leaving the library Saturday evening when the officer began following him. The officer ultimately raised his gun and told him to get on the ground, he wrote. He said his son was then asked his name and to produce his student ID.

“He realizes that there are other young people who have fewer privileges, less access and endure even greater traumas, but whose stories go unreported until something truly tragic happens,” he said. “He wants the focus to remain on them. I couldn’t be prouder of him for having the wisdom to recognize that.”

The Huffington Post