Two people were arrested after more than 400 gathered on the University of Mississippi campus chanting political slogans and racial slurs during a protest of the results of Tuesday's presidential election. Ole Miss officials said in a statement released Wednesday that shortly before midnight after messages were sent out on Twitter that students gathered near the student union on the campus in Oxford.
The crowd of 400 was dispersed by university police, but about 25 minutes later, another crowd of about 100 gathered in front of one of the campus dorms.
“While we are grateful that there were no injuries and there was no property damage, we are very disappointed in those students who took a very immature and uncivil approach to expressing their views about the election,” said University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones in a news release. “The gathering seems to have been fueled by social media, and the conversation should have stayed there.”
