COLLEGE STATION, Texas ― No charges will be filed after an incident at Texas A&M University in which Black high school students touring campus reported being subjected to racial slurs and taunts, the university said Wednesday.
University police said in a statement that they closed their investigation into the Feb. 9 incident after interviewing several witnesses, including the high school students and teachers on the tour.
One Texas A&M student allegedly approached two of the high school students and told them to look at her Confederate flag earrings. According to police reports released Wednesday, other A&M students shouted, “Go back where you came from,” and used a slur.
But several Texas A&M students denied using or hearing the slur, or shouting anything at the tour group other than, “Howdy,” a common greeting on campus. One student acknowledged heckling a high school student about wearing a University of Texas backpack ― a reference to A&M’s biggest rival.
No video of the incident has emerged.
“We have no proof of who may have said it,” wrote a local prosecutor in a report released Wednesday as part of the police investigative file.
One student has left the university since the incident, Texas A&M President Michael K. Young told The Associated Press on Wednesday. But Young declined to say whether the student was expelled or if any others were disciplined, citing a federal law on student privacy.
