[PATCH] A Rutgers lecturer living in Brooklyn was taken to a Manhattan psychiatric hospital after the Rutgers University Police Department tipped off the New York Police Department about an inflammatory tweet he sent.Kevin Allred, who is white, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan by the NYPD for a psychiatric evaluation on Tuesday after his Nov. 10 tweet, which said: "Will the 2nd amendment be as cool when I buy a gun and start shooting at random white people or no...?"
Apparently if you're a Dem you're an honorary Person of Color® as long as you check your privilege at the door.
"We were informed by Rutgers PD that he made threats to kill white people and he was subsequently taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation," an NYPD spokesperson told Patch. He was not incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
or charged with a crime.
"The Rutgers University Police Department responded to a complaint from a student and took all appropriate action. We have no further comment," E.J. Miranda, a spokesperson for the university, told Patch in a statement.
"Rutgers police contacted the 94 Precinct and requested a wellness check be conducted on the professor based on comments he made in the classroom and on Twitter about killing white people," Kellyann Ort, with the NYPD, told Patch. "Based on these comments he was transported to Bellevue Hospital for psychological evaluation."
