Ole Miss Opens Probe After Racist Counterprotest Hecklers Go Viral
The University of Mississippi has launched a student conduct investigation after a video of mostly white male students jeering at a Black pro-Palestine protester went viral on social media.
In a letter addressed to the campus community on Friday, Chancellor Glenn Boyce said the university was aware of behavior that was “offensive, hurtful and unacceptable, including actions that conveyed hostility and racist overtones,” although he did not clarify who lodged those racist attacks.
“While student privacy laws prohibit us from commenting on any specific student, we have opened one student conduct investigation. We are working to determine whether more cases are warranted,” Boyce wrote.