Posted on February 10, 2022

Student Charged With Faking Racist Incident at SIUE

Robert Patrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 4, 2022

A student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been criminally charged and accused of faking a racist incident {snip}

Kaliyeha A. Clark-Mabins, 19, was charged Friday with three counts of disorderly conduct for telling SIUE police that two notes were posted by someone else on her dormitory room door on Jan. 23 saying, “BLACK PEOPLE DON’T BELONG” and “DIE BITCH” {snip}

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University officials notified the campus community of the charges Friday, saying two other students who had originally been “named as suspects… have been fully cleared of any involvement. {snip}”

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