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Missouri campus police hold suspect for threats to shoot blacks

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Students listen at a press conference at Traditions Plaza at Carnahan Quad, on the University of Missouri …

(Reuters) - A suspect was in custody on Wednesday for making online threats to shoot black students at the University of Missouri following racial protests that prompted the school's president and chancellor to step down this week, campus police said.

The announcement followed a post on the social media app Yik Yak on Tuesday, tagged for the college town Columbia.

The posting read: "I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.