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Police: OU student who placed suspicious package on campus won't face charges

The OU Police Department said the person who placed the package on the campus came forward, but they are protected by free speech

Police: OU student who placed suspicious package on campus won't face charges

The OU Police Department said the person who placed the package on the campus came forward, but they are protected by free speech

YEAH. THIS CAMPUS IS SAW A MASSIVE POLICE RESPONSE AND BUILDING EVACUATE. WHEN THAT SIGN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IN PACKAGE WERE PLACED ON THE LAWN RIGHT HERE. NOW, THE POLICE CHIEF SAYS THAT THEY WON’T BE FACING ANY PROSECUTION AND HAVE COME FORWARD. SKY 5 FLYING OVER THE SCENE LAST WEEK THIS PACKAGE LED TO LARGE SCALE EVACUATIONS AND A RESPONSE FROM A BOMB SQUAD ROBOT. IN AUDIO RECORDED BY THE CAMPUS STUDENT NEWSPAPER, OU DAILY, OU CHIEF OF POLICE NATE TARVER TOLD THE UNIVERSITY STAFF, SENATE OFFICERS. WERE SUSPICIOUS OF THE PACKAGE AND CHOSE TO USE CAUTION. SOMETIMES WE DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS, SO WE BASED ON THAT, WE HAVE TO APPROACH IT FROM THAT, THAT POINT OF VIEW AND MAKE SURE THAT IT’S NOT SOMETHING THAT’S GOING TO BE DETRIMENTAL TO ALL OF US. WHEN THE SIGN IN PACKAGE WERE LEFT, IT WASN’T KNOWN WHO PUT IT OUT. SOMEONE ACTUALLY CONTACTED US AND LET US KNOW THAT THEY PUT THAT THERE AND BUT THERE WAS NO MALICIOUS INTENT. IT WAS PROTEST PARTY. THE PROTEST ART WAS ABOUT THE WAR IN GAZA, WHERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THE STUDENT COALITION FOR PALESTINIAN LIBERATION SAYS IN AN INSTAGRAM POST THAT THEY WEREN’T INVOLVED, BUT THAT THIS SHINES LIGHT ON THE PALESTINIAN SIDE OF THE WAR. WHILE THE POLICE CHIEF RULED OUT CRIMINAL CHARGES, THE UNIVERSITY SAID THEY’RE REVIEWING AND COULD ADDRESS THE SITUATION THROUGH UNIVERSITY PROCESSES. NOW, THE POLICE CHIEF COULD NOT COMM
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Police: OU student who placed suspicious package on campus won't face charges

The OU Police Department said the person who placed the package on the campus came forward, but they are protected by free speech

The person who placed a suspicious package at the University of Oklahoma won't face charges. | MORE | OU gives all-clear after bomb squad investigates suspicious package OU's Norman campus saw a massive police response when someone put a sign and package on a lawn outside Gaylord Hall. The OU Police Department said the person who placed the package on the campus came forward, but they are protected by free speech. The package even led to a response from a bomb squad robot. In an audio recording by the campus' student newspaper, OU Daily, OU police Chief Nate Tarver said the university Staff Senate that officers were suspicious of the package, and they chose to use caution. "Sometimes, we don't know what it is. So based on that, we have to approach it from that point of view and make sure that it's not something that's going to be detrimental to all of us," Tarver said. When the sign and package were left, it wasn't known who put them there. "As luck would turn out, someone actually did contact us and let us know that they put that there, but there was no malicious intent. It was protest art," Tarver said. The protest art was about the war in Gaza, where thousands of people have died. The Student Coalition for Palestinian Liberation said in an Instagram post that they weren't involved, but that this shines a light on the Palestinian side of the war. While the police chief ruled out criminal charges, the university said they are reviewing the situation and could address it through "university processes." Top Headlines AT&T customers in Oklahoma without cell service due to nationwide outage OU in process of making changes in wake of executive order issued by Stitt Oklahomans convicted of helping in a murder could soon serve more jail time China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reigniting its panda diplomacy

The person who placed a suspicious package at the University of Oklahoma won't face charges.

| MORE | OU gives all-clear after bomb squad investigates suspicious package

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OU's Norman campus saw a massive police response when someone put a sign and package on a lawn outside Gaylord Hall. The OU Police Department said the person who placed the package on the campus came forward, but they are protected by free speech.

The package even led to a response from a bomb squad robot.

In an audio recording by the campus' student newspaper, OU Daily, OU police Chief Nate Tarver said the university Staff Senate that officers were suspicious of the package, and they chose to use caution.

"Sometimes, we don't know what it is. So based on that, we have to approach it from that point of view and make sure that it's not something that's going to be detrimental to all of us," Tarver said.

When the sign and package were left, it wasn't known who put them there.

"As luck would turn out, someone actually did contact us and let us know that they put that there, but there was no malicious intent. It was protest art," Tarver said.

The protest art was about the war in Gaza, where thousands of people have died. The Student Coalition for Palestinian Liberation said in an Instagram post that they weren't involved, but that this shines a light on the Palestinian side of the war.

While the police chief ruled out criminal charges, the university said they are reviewing the situation and could address it through "university processes."


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