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 mentions that he took particular issue with how his son was stopped: “Why was a gun drawn first?”
“I am reminded of what I have always known, but what some would choose to deny: that there is no way to work your way out — earn your way out — of this sort of crisis. In these moments, what you’ve done matters less than how you look,” Blow wrote. “There is no amount of respectability that can bend a gun’s barrel. All of our boys are bound together.”
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