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Friday 2 June 2017
Threat closes Washington college after protests over race Lawmaker stabbed
in robbery attempt
Wall Street Journal saying says he feels lucky
he was called a racist be-
cause he had “challenged PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A
coercive segregation by Philadelphia city council-
race.” man stabbed in an at-
Weinstein said a group en- tempted robbery near his
couraging another group residence said Thursday
to go away was “an act of that he’s lucky the blade
oppression in and of itself,” didn’t hit his vital organs.
The News Tribune reported. Republican Councilman
Evergreen State said par- David Oh was released
ticipation has always been from the hospital Thursday
optional. afternoon.
“White students have nev- “I feel very good, good
er been required to leave health, good spirits, good
campus, for Day of Ab- everything,” Oh told re-
sence, or any Evergreen porters at an impromptu
activity,” the college said. news conference on his
Advocates say the ef- front porch.
fort helps increase social Oh said he was coming
Students leave The Evergreen State College campus in Olympia after a threat prompted a student awareness, but critics call it home from work Wednes-
alert and evacuation on Thursday, June 1, 2017. The announcement posted on the school’s web- divisive. day night when a man
site Thursday asked everyone to leave the Olympia campus or return to residence halls for further he did not recognize ap-
instructions. The post did not provide other details. Some students called for proached, demanded the
(Tony Overman /The Olympian via AP) Weinstein to resign, and keys to his car and stabbed
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A credible enough to forward law enforcement when conservative media point- him once in the left side.
small college in Washing- to Evergreen State College they “can give the all ed to the furor as an ex- Police were still looking for
ton state closed abruptly in Olympia, and school of- clear,” Kaiser said. She ample of intolerance on the assailant, and no ar-
Thursday in response to a ficials decided to close the hoped classes would re- college campuses, where rests have been made.
threat following a recent campus, Sandra Kaiser, Ev- sume Friday. protests have derailed mul- “It was just like (the man)
series of protests that have ergreen’s vice president for It follows protests over a tiple appearances by con- was in attack mode,”
drawn national attention college relations, told re- white professor opposing troversial figures. neighbor Elliott Williams,
to student allegations of porters Thursday. an April event in which or- The University of California, who saw part of the at-
racism on the progressive Kaiser did not know the ganizers asked white stu- Berkeley, was criticized for tack, told The Philadelphia
campus. source of the threat or dents to leave campus to canceling an appearance Inquirer.
It comes as many defend- whether it was tied to re- talk about race issues. It’s by conservative commen- Williams said he shouted,
ers of the First Amendment cent protests at the col- a reversal from the long- tator Ann Coulter in April “The cops are coming!”
say they see signs that free lege, which asked every- standing annual “Day of and another by right-wing and the assailant fled.
speech is losing ground as one to leave or return to Absence,” in which minori- provocateur Milo Yian- Oh underwent surgery
a priority at U.S. colleges residence halls for further ties traditionally attend pro- nopoulos in February. It overnight, said Matt Per-
and is being used as a po- instructions. grams off campus. canceled Coulter’s speech she, a legislative aide.
litical weapon to silence Officers were “visible and Biology professor Bret Wein- amid threats of violence, The attack occurred on
opposing viewpoints. present” on campus Thurs- stein, who has taught at Ev- fearing a repeat of clashes the block where Oh, who is
Law enforcement thought day, and school officials ergreen for 15 years, wrote ahead of the Yiannopoulos married and has four chil-
the threat via a 911 call was were waiting to hear from an op-ed piece in the event.q dren, has lived since the
1960s. Oh, first elected to
Documents: the council in 2011, is the
first Asian-American elect-
Doctor arrested at Trump Hotel spoke of McVeigh ed to public office in Phila-
delphia and the only U.S.
military veteran serving on
By JESSICA GRESKO plies, multiple cellphones addict suffering from post- ing so, they averted a po- the council.
JULIET LINDERMAN and enough ammunition traumatic stress disorder. tential tragedy, though the He said Thursday he holds
Associated Press to make his car resemble He served in the Navy from Secret Service said agents no ill will toward the man
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Oklahoma City bomber 1992 to 2006. interviewed Moles and de- but considers him danger-
Pennsylvania doctor with Timothy McVeigh “on a Before driving to the na- termined he did not pose a ous and wants him caught.
an assault-style rifle and a camping trip,” according tion’s capital, Moles left threat. Officials described Oh’s late father founded
handgun told an acquain- to charging documents voicemails for an acquain- Moles as cooperative with Philadelphia’s first Korean-
tance that he was driving filed Thursday. tance calling himself “a the investigation. American church in 1953.
to see the president and Bryan Moles, 43, was arrest- refugee intent on bringing In Moles’ hotel room, inves- According to Oh’s council
that he had survival sup- ed at Trump International down big pharmacy and tigators found a safe with website , one of his cousins
Hotel in downtown Wash- big business medicine,” the $10,000 inside, and he told was murdered in 1958 by a
ington on Wednesday and documents said. He also authorities that he’d emp- group of teenagers while
faces charges of unlawful made mention of Olympic tied his bank account “in a graduate student at the
possession and transporta- Park Bomber Eric Rudolph, order to live the life he al- University of Pennsylvania.
tion of a firearm. He was who was convicted of per- ways wanted before it was Oh’s parents requested
not licensed to carry a gun petrating multiple acts of too late,” according to the leniency for the boys and
in the District of Columbia, domestic terrorism. charging documents. He started a fund to help them
which has strict gun laws, Authorities said a tipster left $4.19 in his account, upon their release.
authorities said. contacted them about the corresponding to the date Police said they would be
The documents describe messages and they arrest- of McVeigh’s bombing of a searching for surveillance
Moles as a recovering al- ed Moles. D.C. Police Chief federal building on April 19, video and interviewing po-
coholic and marijuana Peter Newsham said in do- 1995. q tential witnesses. q