The University of Utah police department arrested a student for making a joke about a nuclear reactor and the university’s football team.
On the social media platform Yik Yak, which allows students to communicate without revealing their names, Meredith Miller posted, “if we don’t win today, I’m detonating the nuclear reactor on campus”.
The police traced the post back to Miller, arrested her, and booked her into the Salt Lake County Jail. She was released on a $5,000 bail and is facing a charge of making a terroristic threat.
Jason Hinojosa, the university police chief, said the arrest was made because the university has “a zero-tolerance policy for these kinds of threats”.
“In the age that we’re living in, we have to take every threat seriously”, he added. The police department argued that the student had “knowledge of the nuclear reactor” and she attended classes in the same building the reactor is located...
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