An apparent student of Bowling Green State University (BGSU) has posted shocking footage showing a Ku Klux Klan meeting on the school’s premises, sparking uproar against the university. The video, shot from afar, showed a white cloth draped over something, and the suggestion was that it was a person wearing a KKK hood.
Plot twist: It was just a cover on a piece of lab equipment.
On Sunday, Twitter user @autumpatrice shared a video taken by her, and saying, “There’s been an ACTIVE KKK group in Bowling Green, OH since 1922”. She also asked of University President Mary Ellen Mazey, “how does this promote diversity &a inclusion??”
“I forget that there is an ACTIVE KKK GROUP HERE IN BG OHIO,” the caption in the video read.
https://twitter.com/autumpatrice/status/823164742646845444
The video gathered some attention, with more than 700 retweets. One user said “Welcome to Trump’s America. About to see a lot more of this. I ain’t scared of these b****** though”.
Another student at BGSU, who goes by the name Ingrid Josephine on Twitter, tweeted in response to the footage: “[BGSU President Mazey] even if you don’t want to send out a phony a** email, cool, WE DEMAND ACTION! The KKK is an obvious threat to our campus.”
The President of the university quickly investigated the issue only to find that the alleged KKK meeting was just “a cover on a piece of lab equipment.” Mazey also shared pictures proving that it was indeed just a cover on equipment in the class.
Thanks for sharing, @autumpatrice. We looked into this. We discovered it's a cover on a piece of lab equipment. pic.twitter.com/plkQTBr9HC
— Mary Ellen Mazey (@PresidentMazey) January 23, 2017
Following the uproar after the university showed that there was no KKK meeting on its premises, the student who shared the video remained unapologetic. She said she won’t apologize “for exposing something serious I thought I saw.”
“It’s easier to ruin a school’s reputation than it is to walk 100ft closer for a better look,” said one person to the student.
