UH volleyball players Isabel Theut and Abbie Jackson appeared in a video posted on Sunday by an anonymous Twitter account that included a racist caption alluding to the infamous 1935 lynching of two Black teenagers in Columbus, Theut’s hometown.
Theut, a graduate student in the C.T. Bauer College of Business, was shown laughing in the video while Jackson, a senior, drove near the large oak tree where two teenagers were lynched by a mob in November 1935. The original video appeared to have been filmed by freshman volleyball player Ryleigh Whitekettle on Snapchat, according to the Twitter account.