{"id":4675,"date":"2015-11-13T11:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2015-11-13T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:17:56","slug":"2-students-arrested-for-social-media-threats-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/2-students-arrested-for-social-media-threats-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Students arrested for threats in Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MEREDITH SLOAN<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>USA Today<\/em>, police arrested two college students in Missouri on Wednesday for making threats to black students that heightened tensions\u00a0as the state&#8217;s flagship University of Missouri-Columbia campus.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Stolettlemyre, 19, was arrested \u201con suspicion of making a terrorist threat after he allegedly posted a threat on Yik Yak that read \u2018I\u2019m going to shoot any black people tomorrow, so be ready\u2019. He is a student at Northwest Missouri State University.<\/p>\n<p>Another student, Hunter Park, of Lake St. Louis, Mo., was charged with \u201cmaking the alleged terrorist threat on Yik Yak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4676 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/635828379630407035-HunterPark-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"635828379630407035-HunterPark\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/635828379630407035-HunterPark-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/635828379630407035-HunterPark-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/635828379630407035-HunterPark.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yik Yak, the anonymous social media app, does more harm than good. It allows individuals to post on an open platform based on one\u2019s location, creating an open forum where individuals can interact in their environment without their identity.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Yik Yak is irresponsible, cowardly and dangerous. In situations like this, Yik Yak is perpetuating the racism across college campuses. Every individual that has the app is exposed to the feed, which has the potential to desensitize students to harmful content and hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>If Yik Yak made users take ownership of their identity, there would be less harmful speech. I suggest that the University of Missouri closely monitor Yik Yak for more potential danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MEREDITH SLOAN According to USA Today, police arrested two college students in Missouri on Wednesday for making threats to black students that heightened tensions\u00a0as the state&#8217;s flagship University of Missouri-Columbia campus. Connor Stolettlemyre, 19, was arrested \u201con suspicion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/2-students-arrested-for-social-media-threats-in-missouri\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[28,107,103,25,56],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meredith-sloan","tag-media","tag-news","tag-social-issues","tag-social-media","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4686,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}