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Eddie Curlin, 29 and a former Eastern Michigan University Student, was charged on Monday for defacing the campus with racist graffiti on multiple occasions. According to officials, the acts were not politically motivated or racially driven.
But ‘How Sway?’ Curlin is currently serving an prison term up to five years for receiving stolen goods in December 2015, and police were able to trace him back to three separate graffiti incidents that took place while he was at the school.
- The first incident took place in September 2016 when the letters ‘KKK’ – seemingly referencing the Ku Klux Klan – and underneath in bold black ‘leave n*****s was spray-painted on an exterior wall, reported the Eastern Echo. The letters ‘KKK’ were painted in red, white and blue.
- An October 2016 incident had the message ‘leave n*****s’ again scrawled outside of a building, this one right next to the campus’s monument to Martin Luther King.
- The third incident took place last spring in which a racist message was found in a men’s restroom stall in Sherzer Hall, according to EMU.
Curlin just made things very awkward for all black students at Eastern Michigan University.
