(Article by Jenna Curren republished from LawEnforcementToday.com)
According to reports, some of this violent rhetoric included advocating for the targeted killings of law enforcement. In one of the posts to social media, the leader of VCU’s student government, who reportedly identifies as transgender and non-binary, wrote:
“I hate white people so much it’s not even funny.”
The communist student body president of Virginia Commonwealth University (@VCU) is revealed to be behind an account that posted racist screeds & advocated for murderous violence. Taylor Marie Maloney s extremism actually earned them praise from @ACLUVA: https://t.co/48GuqfVSw3
In the now-suspended Twitter account @okrasocialist, VCU student body president Taylor Marie Maloney, tweeted in March:
SGA president’s past tweets trigger discourse, VCU response
Katharine DeRosa,
News Editor
Student Government Association President Taylor Maloney received backlash on Twitter after an article published in The Post Millennial, a conservative Canadian media outlet, outlined some of Maloney’s past tweets on police and protests.
The April 27 article in The Post Millennial, written by Andy Ngo and Mia Cathell, referred to previous tweets by Maloney as “violent extremist” and “racist.”
Maloney was elected as president of VCU’s Student Government Association last spring. They also serve on the Virginia Student Power Association. Maloney previously advocated for police abolition on campus and in Richmond and is the first openly transgender and nonbinary student government president at a public university, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.
30 Apr 2021
The student body president of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) was discovered posting extreme, racist, and violent rhetoric on social media, which included advocating for the targeted killings of law enforcement. In one post to social media, the “transgender & non-binary” leader of VCU’s student government wrote: “i hate white people so much its not even funny.”
“Ur reminder to advocate for the [killing] of [kops],” tweeted VCU student body president Taylor Marie Maloney in March, from the now-suspended Twitter account, @okrasocialist, according to a report by Post Millennial.
In another tweet, the student body president celebrated the killing of a Capitol Police officer.
VCU outraged over violent tweets attributed to student government president
By: WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff , Shannon Lilly
Posted at 4:04 PM, Apr 30, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-01 19:47:40-04
RICHMOND, Va. VCU President Michael Rao has issued a statement expressing outrage over comments Student Government Association president Taylor Maloney made on social media.
Maloney s tweets, in which they appeared to advocate for the killing of police officers and called for more rioting, were brought to light in a recent online article published by The Post Millennial. Maloney appeared to be posting under a username that did not reveal their identity.
A search on Friday found the account in which the posts were made had been suspended.
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