Posted on 09/11/2014 at 04:02 PM
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I was in college and was riding the student transport bus from my apartment to a campus building when I heard rumblings from some people on the bus. My first class of the day was an Intro to Anthropology course and when everyone got there, the teacher brought us up to speed. I don't remember if we had a full class or not. Hearing it was just awful but the real shocker came when I went to a journalism class later that day. It was in one of those stadium-size rooms and on the huge projector screen was CNN coverage; seeing that footage for the first time was indescribable.
After my classes were over, I walked to my apartment (skipping waiting for a transport bus) and got to my parking lot when I heard a voice coming through a speaker. I turned and looked and saw a car with a P.A. system driving around campus slowly and sharing his angry (understandable) and racist (not so much) reactions to the incident. A police car was following him and as soon as he said something to the effect of "We got to kill all these fuckers" (I'm assuming he meant Arabs or Muslims in general), the police car's sirens turned on and he was pulled over.
Confusion, shock, sadness and anger all in one day.