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Via Daily Mail:
A black student blamed his ‘bottled up anger’ for racist, threatening graffiti he admitted to scrawling in a bathroom on a Maryland college campus, according to a police report.
Baltimore County police on Monday filed hate crime charges against 21-year-old Fynn Arthur, a Brunswick, Maine, resident who was enrolled as a student at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.
Police arrested Arthur last Thursday on misdemeanor charges of malicious destruction of property.
He was released from custody after a court hearing last Friday.
State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said his office subsequently recommended the additional charges, which also are misdemeanors.
‘We felt that with the message that was involved, there was sufficient evidence that the motive behind the message was race-related,’ he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Arthur told investigators he was responsible for the bathroom graffiti of a backward swastika and a death threat that included a racial slur against blacks and the numbers of dorm rooms belonging to black students, including himself, the police report says.
‘When asked why he would do something like that, he replied that he has a lot of built up anger with no way to vent it on campus,’ the report says.
Arthur, who was a member of the Goucher College men’s lacrosse team, has been banned from campus pending disciplinary proceedings, college officials said in a statement.