Two University of Missouri students are arrested for alleged anti-Semitic intimidation of a Jewish student.
Campus police arrest Erich Eastman 18, and Noah Rogers, 19, both of Columbia, Missouri, earlier this week. They are released after each posting $1,500 bail.
According to the alleged victim, Eastman and Rogers have been harassing him for six months, including with anti-Semitic notes and comments.
The university’s interim chancellor, Hank Foley, in an email sent Tuesday to students and other members of the campus community says the two students’ “behavior is abhorrent and antithetical to our core value of respect. It simply will not be tolerated,” the student newspaper the Columbia Missourian reports.
The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office has opened a criminal case against Eastman and Rogers, who are also facing possible expulsion from the university.
— JTA
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