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TexasTowelie

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Sun Nov 8, 2015, 08:17 AM Nov 2015

Black grad student on hunger strike in Missouri after swastika drawn with human feces

The swastika appeared overnight, drawn with human feces on a college dorm's brand new white wall.

But the racial tension had been brewing for months.

Columbia, Missouri, a city known for its cheeseburgers and college sports teams, is earning a much less savory reputation these days. Once ranked among the best places to live in America, Columbia has witnessed a flurry of racist incidents in recent months, culminating with the swastika scrawled in excrement on Oct. 24.

Now a graduate student says he is on hunger strike and willing to die unless the school's president steps down.

Read more: http://www.theeagle.com/news/nation/black-grad-student-on-hunger-strike-in-missouri-after-swastika/article_c5a8c8ac-85d7-11e5-ae06-2f21a549b77a.html

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Black grad student on hunger strike in Missouri after swastika drawn with human feces (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2015 OP
Doesn't fecal matter usually have usable DNA in it? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2015 #1

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Doesn't fecal matter usually have usable DNA in it?
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 09:00 AM
Nov 2015

Ie, can't the cops get a DNA match from it to test against any suspects that pop up in the case?

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