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SAGINAW, MI — Police at Saginaw Valley State University say a threat posted on the social media site Yik Yak read, "I'm going to shoot every black person I can on campus. Starting tomorrow morning."
The message triggered an investigation and police security response that led to the arrest of a Delta College student living in SVSU housing.
Emmanuel D. Bowden
Emmanuel D. Bowden, 21, is charged with making a false report or threat of terrorism, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. According to SVSU University Police reports, a user on the social media application Yik Yak, just after midnight Friday, Nov. 13, posted the message about shooting black people.
The police reports state that, after the post received multiple "negative replies," the original poster replied with four additional messages that read, "Its [sic] a joke," "I'm black," "I was going to give it an hour to see how you all would react," and "Right. I could be angry and just expressing myself lol."
The original message, as well as all replies, "were deleted from Yik Yak a short time later due to the number of negative votes the original message generated," police reports state.
University police and the FBI investigated the post, and police sometime before 9:30 a.m. arrested Bowden inside a residence hall on SVSU's campus in Kochville Township on an unrelated warrant. While inside the residence hall, police called Bowden's cellphone to confirm his phone was the one they believe was used to post the threat, the reports state.
University spokesman J.J. Boehm has said Bowden, a Canton resident, is a full-time Delta College student who was living on SVSU's campus. SVSU has 13 students from Delta living on campus this year, Boehm said.
Bowden's arrest warrant alleges he "did threaten to commit an act of terrorism and did communicate that threat to another person." The language from Bowden's warrant comes from the statute related to the false report charge. The statute also states, "It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing the act of terrorism."
Bowden remains jailed on a $10,000 or 10 percent bond in the Yik Yak case. He also remains jailed on a $4,500 or 10 percent bond on a credit card-related case that he, Javon A. Cooney and Omari J. Willis face in connection with an Oct. 2 incident inside a convenience store on SVSU's campus. Bowden is scheduled for a Dec. 3 preliminary hearing before District Judge M. Randall Jurrens for the Yik Yak case, and he and his co-defendants are scheduled for a Dec. 2 preliminary hearing before Jurrens.
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/11/student_charged_in_yik_yak_thr.html
20 years for racist post hoax...not in Obamaland, he is the wrong color.
The message triggered an investigation and police security response that led to the arrest of a Delta College student living in SVSU housing.
Emmanuel D. Bowden Emmanuel D. Bowden, 21, is charged with making a false report or threat of terrorism, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. According to SVSU University Police reports, a user on the social media application Yik Yak, just after midnight Friday, Nov. 13, posted the message about shooting black people.
The police reports state that, after the post received multiple "negative replies," the original poster replied with four additional messages that read, "Its [sic] a joke," "I'm black," "I was going to give it an hour to see how you all would react," and "Right. I could be angry and just expressing myself lol."
The original message, as well as all replies, "were deleted from Yik Yak a short time later due to the number of negative votes the original message generated," police reports state.
University police and the FBI investigated the post, and police sometime before 9:30 a.m. arrested Bowden inside a residence hall on SVSU's campus in Kochville Township on an unrelated warrant. While inside the residence hall, police called Bowden's cellphone to confirm his phone was the one they believe was used to post the threat, the reports state.
University spokesman J.J. Boehm has said Bowden, a Canton resident, is a full-time Delta College student who was living on SVSU's campus. SVSU has 13 students from Delta living on campus this year, Boehm said.
Bowden's arrest warrant alleges he "did threaten to commit an act of terrorism and did communicate that threat to another person." The language from Bowden's warrant comes from the statute related to the false report charge. The statute also states, "It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing the act of terrorism."
Bowden remains jailed on a $10,000 or 10 percent bond in the Yik Yak case. He also remains jailed on a $4,500 or 10 percent bond on a credit card-related case that he, Javon A. Cooney and Omari J. Willis face in connection with an Oct. 2 incident inside a convenience store on SVSU's campus. Bowden is scheduled for a Dec. 3 preliminary hearing before District Judge M. Randall Jurrens for the Yik Yak case, and he and his co-defendants are scheduled for a Dec. 2 preliminary hearing before Jurrens.
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/11/student_charged_in_yik_yak_thr.html
20 years for racist post hoax...not in Obamaland, he is the wrong color.
