After the arrest, Tyler Clavelle told NHPR, “I know how much time it’s going to take to get myself back to what I was, to literally piece myself back together. That’s my time though. It could be years or months.” Khady Badiane and Clavelle were arrested in March 2020.
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Keene State College has reached a settlement agreement with two former students who were arrested last year. The New Hampshire college agreed to forgive debt owed, compensate for lost wages and provide certain services to Ndeye “Khady” Badiane and Tyler Clavelle.
The total settlement amounts to about $42,000 between the two former students, who were arrested on campus last March.
The hall’s director noticed the marijuana smell and called campus security for support.
When she came to Badiane’s room, she realized that Badiane wasn’t alone. Her fiancé, Tyler Clavelle, didn’t have permission to be in the dorm during spring break because he didn’t live there, but Clavelle said he was there to take care of his sick fiancée.
“I’m standing right here in the middle of the room, in the middle of the doorway, with a remote,” he said. “Why would I be hiding? Why would she be lying?”
Things got really tense when Clavelle went to use the women’s restroom to wash his hands, after searching through bags of trash to find the pipe and handing it over the hall director.
Two Black students at Keene State College said they were assaulted by six police officers, who used force to arrest them, after an argument with college staff allegedly escalated to sexual discrimination in an on-campus incident that happened nearly a year ago.
Ndeye Khady Badiane, 23, said she and her fiancé, Tyler Clavelle, were arrested last March 16 while she was self-quarantining for COVID-19 at the advice of Keene State’s wellness center.
After bringing their experiences to Keene State President Melinda Treadwell, and waiting for support that Badiane said they didn’t receive, she decided to speak out in a statement last week and posted videos of the incident at the New Hampshire campus that have since been viewed by hundreds.