{"id":6540,"date":"2023-04-10T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2023-04-10T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T12:23:32","slug":"police-swat-five-black-students-out-of-harvard-universitys-leverett-house-for-no-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/archives\/6540","title":{"rendered":"Police “SWAT” Five Black Students out of Harvard University’s Leverett House for no reason!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This appeared in the April 8, 2023 edition of the Harvard Crimson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leverett \u2018Swatting\u2019 Attack:<\/strong> At least five armed Harvard University Police Department officers stormed a Leverett House suite early Monday morning<\/a>. The raid was prompted by a false 911 call from someone claiming to be a \u201ckicked out\u201d student who had taken a woman hostage in the suite<\/a>. The students in the suite, who are Black, were ordered out of their rooms by the police at gunpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvard students and alumni\u00a0condemned the attack and some criticized the University\u2019s response<\/a>\u00a0to the swatting attack.\u00a0Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana acknowledged\u00a0the attack\u00a0in an email to students Wednesday night, more than two days after the attack occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bettina Comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many cases of police removing African Americans, other minorities and women from their homes without cause. Leverett House was home for the blacks so removed. We are publishing such attacks so they are known by a more general public and in some cases our research shows they were not published at all, but quietly covered over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are the police – Harvard or otherwise, being used in such a way and what are they and others doing to stop such horribleness. Let me <\/a>remind you of Dr. Henry Louis Gates – Harvard Professor and Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett – Episcopal priest. One removed by the police falsely claiming criminal reasons; one removed by the police from his home and forced into a psych unit of a local hospital without cause. If you remember, Dr. Bennett was sent back home within hours from the hospital because there was no reason to have attempted to humiliate him in such a way and Dr. Gates was arrested for breaking and entering his own home,. Dr. Gates no longer lives in the Harvard Square area which is and has been kept “white northern european male” forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This appeared in the April 8, 2023 edition of the Harvard Crimson: Leverett \u2018Swatting\u2019 Attack: At least five armed Harvard University Police Department officers stormed a Leverett House suite early Monday morning. The raid was prompted by a false 911 call from someone claiming to be a \u201ckicked out\u201d student who had taken a woman hostage in the suite. The students in the suite, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}