I’m going to call the police,'”Siyonbola told the officers

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moncler outlet online shop Lolade Siyonbola, a black graduate student at Yale University, had been writing a paper in her dorm’s common room when she dozed off. She awoke moncler outlet serravalle to a white schoolmate threatening to call the police if she didn’t leave. Tuesday. The first video shows her confronting the white student who ordered her to get out. “You cannot sleep in that room.” moncler outlet online shop

Minutes later, two police officers arrive to begin what would turn into a 17 minute interrogation of Siyonbola, moncler bambino outlet which she captured in her second video.

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Siyonbola told police the woman had called the cops on a friend a few months earlier, “because he was in the stairwell and he was black.”

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At this point, the caller pointed to the other student and said, “This is her.” Protocol is for police to separate the parties involved, so two officers stayed with the woman on the fifth floor and the investigating officer went with the caller to the 12th floor.

The investigating officer spent over 11 minutes initially with the caller to assess the situation, while the other two officers spent about 15 minutes with the other woman to assess the situation and to confirm her identity. After reviewing the scene in the 12thfloor common room and seeing a computer, books, and notebooks in addition to a blanket and pillow on the couch, the investigating officer determined that the person who had been sleeping in the common room was likely a student, so the officer asked the caller to wait in her room outlet moncler on the 12thfloor.

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