Student charged with misdemeanor for residence hall fire in hate-crime hoax | The College Fix"A former Viterbo University student has been charged with one misdemeanor count of negligent handling of burning materials after police say
she set a fire inside her dorm in April for “attention purposes.”...a copy of the criminal complaint...alleges Unanka admitted to setting the fire to police and that security video footage also places her at the location of the fire, a garbage can inside a lounge in a student dormitory.
...Unanka “had already
messaged a friend of hers that she was potentially a victim of another hate crime because of the fire started next to her dorm room,” the complaint states.
...Unanka, who is black, had
reportedly been the target of other alleged hate crimes earlier in the semester consisting of graffiti, incidents that had prompted administrators to cancel classes for a day so the campus community could protest.
Unanka spoke at the university-endorsed walkout, which attracted hundreds of students and staff.
A few weeks after Unanka was arrested, President Glena Temple
said that the student responsible for the dormitory fire had been identified, however,
refused to provide the person’s name. Simultaneously, Temple closed the internal investigation into campus racism vandalism and graffiti...Read all.
