"Some of you are alright. Don't go to campus tomorrow."Those words propelled Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, into the national spotlight after racist threats were posted about the recent protests at the University of Missouri.
"I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see," another poster wrote. But, students asked, who?
The security scare on campus Tuesday evening led many African-American students to flee campus before police arrested Hunter Park, 19, a student at the University of Missouri's Rolla campus, and charged him with using the app to make the threat: "I'm going to shoot any black people tomorrow, so be ready." ...