Person caught on camera the night someone strung bananas as American University. A meeting to address the hate crime has been cancelled. Students walked out of yesterdays town hall chanting their demands. Frustration began to boil over today after a meeting was called off between au administrators and several student groups of color. Kristen wright is live in northwest right now with Fast Breaking developments with this story. Reporter kpamz are going on right now but there is still that unease. Today in a statement we heard from the student who was in many ways at the center of this whole thing, tailer dumbson is the new Student Government association president. First africanamerican woman to hold that position. Shes also an aka, the is a roert named in that hateful banana incident she shes not surprised by these quote heinous actions, but i was disappointed to realize that in this day and age we must be prepared for the challenges and that were once our parents and grandparents to be
Dumpsons sorority. But she said now is not the time to place blame. The purpose of this town hall is to focus on what brought us together, the fact that weve had enough fon being attacked fr who we are. Right now, dumpson is getting ready to hold a News Conference and Kristin Wright is there, working to learn more about what they want to see from the university. Well be hearing from her coming up on news4 at 5 00. Thank you, wendy. Just days after the situation at au, weve learned that police at the university of maryland are investigating a hate incident. Someone found a noose last week in the house kitchen of a phi kappa tau. It felt disgusting, to be honest with you. It felt wrong. Its uncalled for and its just sad and disgusting. Its just so ignorant and horrific. I think that this problem really needs to be addressed. Will. And ahead, whether minority students feel safe at the university. Our chris gordon spent the day on campus. Hell have a live report in our next hour. Our other
Students, staff and alumni, packed into a town hall meeting at American University today. Coming together for a common goal, to fight racism. The Student Government organized the meeting after racist displays were found on the campus. Kristin wright talked to students. Did they feel like this meeting was productive . Reporter yeah, students told us they felt like the twohour town hall was productive. The Student Government association said it will not be the last. I believe this was a Tipping Point that officially caused everyone to say, enough is enough. The outcry at American University. Reporte i never imagined i would become the president or the target of a hate crime. Reporter Taylor Dumpson called this town hall meeting, students want stronger defined campus protocols on hate crimes and other biasrelated incidents. They want au police to track the number of hate crimes and they want to know what happens during and after an investigation. Im really glad that we had this open forum
Hi, everyone this story has been all over today. Probably your and social media feed is definitely on cable news and here on fox5 were talking about the victory on a Key Campaign Promise the First Step Towards repealing the Affordable Care act moves forward. Thats right. As you can see from the rundown over there on the side of your screen this of course is the hottest story tonight at 6 30 we mention everyone has been talking about it. Welcome to the beginning of the end of obamacare. [applause] make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. Make no mistake about it. All right and with that the white house claimed a huge victory today. House republicans passed that healthcare law theyve been fighting for to pass for the past seven years. You cant argue this is a massive win for President Trump because he campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care act and key republicans made their way to the white house to celebrate their win. Now we should point the house passed it to
Schools. The news 4 iteam goes under koev to show you how neighbors are accused of making money from students. News 4 begins now with storm team 4. We start tonight with the rain outside your window and on our radar. Its here and it is not going away for a while. This is our window. It is going to be a very messy commute for a lot of us tomorrow morning. Lets get right to the forecast and chief meteorologist doug kammerer. How messy are we talking . Tomorrow morning is really going to be a mess out there. The heaviest rain coming just as the morning commute gets started. Take a look right now already seeing heavy rain across the area on storm team 4 radar. The rain around the district here is heavy rain in through Loudoun County back towards warrenton. This area is prone to flash flooding. We will have to watch this very closely because there is a lot more rain to come. I think we will get a bit of a break tonight. Look to the south here is where heavy rain is, storms to the south. All