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Suspect faces charges of ‘terroristic threats, criminal coercion and false public alarm’

A man has been arrested for threats directed at the Washington state college at the center of activist controversy earlier this year.

A 53-year-old individual from Morris Plains, New Jersey was taken into custody facing charges of “terroristic threats, criminal coercion and false public alarm” due to threats the suspect made towards Evergreen State college, according to USA Today.

The threats were considered serious enough to prompt Evergreen State to shut down campus for two days.

Evergreen State was rocked by a wave of controversy and activist agitation at the end of this most recent school year when a white professor, Brett Weinstein, refused to leave campus as part of an anti-white “Day of Absence” observation. Protestors harassed Weinstein to the point that police instructed him to leave campus for his safety. Activists also harassed the college’s president, George Bridges—at one point even demanding that a student guard accompany him to the bathroom—with Bridges eventually conceding to numerous student demands.

Bridges also allowed that student activists would be freed from their homework responsibilities so that they could continue to protest.

At various points activists committed either violence or threats and implications of violence: one young man was physically assaulted by several students while peacefully writing chalk messages, while elsewhere a student mob patrolled campus armed with baseball bats.

Many of the faculty at Evergreen eventually came out in opposition to Weinstein, demanding he be punished for his behavior. Bridges himself blamed social media for allegedly distorting Evergreen’s campus goings-on.

Read USA Today’s report on the arrest here.

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