WASHINGTON
A group of students at a Washington high school for the deaf, on the campus of Gallaudet University, scrawled “KKK” and swastikas on a Black student’s body with a marker while holding him against his will, police said Wednesday.
District of Columbia police are investigating the Saturday night attack as a possible hate crime, Chief Cathy Lanier said. The incident began in the dorms of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf.
Seven students six White and one Black took part in holding the Black student, Lanier said.
University officials would not say whether they had been disciplined, but in a campuswide e-mail Wednesday, Katherine Jankowski, dean of the center that includes the high school, said the seven were sent home.
The school discussed the incident at an assembly Monday and has worked with students on issues of diversity and race, said Stephen Weiner, provost of Gallaudet.
