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Cornell Master’s Student Charged With Harassment for Spitting on Muslim Student
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One month after he allegedly spat on a Muslim student in Collegetown, Salim Dridi has been charged with harassment in the second degree.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca-police-department/)
One month after he allegedly spat on a Muslim student in Collegetown, Salim Dridi has been charged with harassment in the second degree.
In the previous month, the Ithaca Police Department underwent Procedural Justice training with a focus on addressing implicit bias, aiming to enhance positive interactions between officers and the community.
Ithaca leaders told The Sun that the City of Ithaca’s new union contract with IPD and a new chief of police have helped begin revitalizing police staffing levels.
Lieutenant Thomas Kelly was named the new chief of the Ithaca Police Department on Nov. 27 following former acting chief John Joly’s controversial departure.
For months, activists in Ithaca have rallied to defund the police, citing the mistreatment of marginalized people, particularly Black and Indigenous people of color. But the city government has largely pushed back on these calls as the police department has shrunk, stressing the continued need for officers.
Cornell’s Prof. Lance Salisbury, law — and Green’s defense attorney — told the court Monday that Green has no previous convictions, according to The Ithaca Voice.
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Despite the number of witnesses, the Nazaire murder investigation, unlike the investigation of group fight that occurred in May, has so still not yielded any suspects.
“Perhaps you saw something trivial or inconsequential, but to our investigators it might just be that one piece of key evidence that helps to sort out just exactly what happened,” Barber said in the release.
Wu was discovered by staff members and appeared to have been dead for several days, potentially more than four.