*Folks ain’t feelin’ Stephanie Clemons Thompson, an administrator at Ohio State University after she posted a plea on Facebook asking for people to show compassion for the man who drove through a crowd of students on Monday and started slashing them with a butcher knife.
Identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, eleven people were hospitalized, students fled for their lives — barricading themselves in classrooms — and the man was killed within a minute by a campus police officer.
Thompson, an assistant director of residence life at Ohio State, made two requests on her Facebook post. One, that the post not be shared and another asking folks to show compassion. Scroll down to see the post.
How Thompson thought a plea such as hers would go over well is beyond me. Especially since some students not only shared photos of Artan’s dead body on social media, but they also commended the police officer that killed him.
Artan is said to have been born in Somalia. He was a junior at OSU.
The Washington Post reports some people found the photos to be gruesome and counter to unity and healing efforts on campus.
The reports says a petition calling for Thompson’s termination at Ohio State had gathered more than 900 signatures by Thursday afternoon.
It read, in part, “Stephanie Clemons Thompson used Facebook as a public platform to shame those who were grateful and relieved the terrorist was taken out so quickly, preventing even more unthinkable terror and destruction in his wake.
Because this man was taken out so quickly his goal of murder was foiled and his victims will live on. Stephanie Clemons Thompson, however, condemns this sentiment of relief by prioritizing the feelings of the terrorist over his innocent victims, their families, and the Buckeye community as a whole.”
Students also did not like that Thompson used the Black Lives Matter hashtag in her post.
Read more at EURThisNthat.
We Publish News 24/7. Don’t Miss A Story. Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE to Our Newsletter Now!
