Then, there was this incident.
Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill 16 White Students At University Of Chicaago
Authorities said a college student responsible for a mass shooting threat that forced the University of Chicago to cancel classes Monday posted that he would kill 16 white male students or staffers at the prestigious college to avenge the shooting death of a black teenager at the hands of a Chicago police officer last year.
Jabari R. Dean, 21, a student at the University of Illinois-Chicago, appeared in court Monday afternoon and did not issue a plea on a charge of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. A federal criminal complaint said that Dean admitted to FBI agents that he had posted the threat Saturday, but took it down shortly after posting it.
The criminal complaint said that someone tipped off the FBI Sunday to a threat that was posted on a social media website. The FBI was unable to find the threat online, and was provided a screenshot by the person who reported the threat.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the posting on worldstarhiphop.com read as follows: "This is my only warning. At 10 a.m. on Monday mourning (sic) I am going to the campus quad of the University of Chicago. I will be armed with a M-4 Carbine and 2 Desert Eagles all fully loaded. I will execute aproximately (sic) 16 white male students and or staff, which is the same number of time (sic) Mcdonald (sic) was killed. I then will die killing any number of white policemen that I can in the process. This is not a joke. I am to do my part to rid the world of the white devils. I expect you to do the same….”
The paper reported that the comment was posted under an online profile called "JRD", which used a Chicago Bulls logo as a profile picture.
Dean is a first-year undergraduate student in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC spokeswoman Sherri McGinnis Gonzalez.
Dean's lawyer declined comment Monday. A judge ordered Dean held until Tuesday's bond hearing, when prosecutors will likely agree to let him be released to his mother.
Despite the threat mentioning three guns, a prosecutor told Monday's hearing that Dean did not appear to pose a threat. The Sun-Times reported that no weapons were found by police who searched Dean's off-campus apartment. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Dean's uncle, Phillip Rutherford, told reporters that his nephew had no intention of carrying out his threat, calling it "just fun and games." "Stupid. Silly ignorant. Goofy. Everybody is upset. The whole family is upset," Rutherford told Fox 32.
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Yet another example of it being "...just fun and games...".
