Morgan State University to Build a Wall Around Campus to Keep Out ‘Bad Actors’
“The wall would extend existing barriers by about 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) to encircle 90% of campus and effectively ‘eliminate unfettered access’”
This is so strange. I have been told repeatedly that walls are racist and don’t work.
The College Fix reports:
Baltimore HBCU will build wall to keep out ‘bad actors’ following shooting
A wall that will shut off “unfettered access” to outsides and encircle 90 percent of the campus will go up soon at a Baltimore historically black college.
The announcement by Morgan State University on Tuesday came after a shooting Oct. 3 “left five people injured during homecoming festivities,” as reported by Fox 5. The suspects reportedly did not intend to target the five injured Morgan State students. Both suspects are black.
“We’re doing this, let me be clear, not to keep out our neighbors and our community writ large; we are doing it to keep out the bad actors,” President David Wilson said during a town hall meeting Tuesday.
“The wall would extend existing barriers by about 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) to encircle 90% of campus and effectively ‘eliminate unfettered access,’” Fox 5 reported, quoting President Wilson.
Other upgrades were underway and are being accelerated, officials said.
Fox 5 reported:
University officials said significant security upgrades were underway before the shooting, but they’re now moving forward with more urgency. In addition to the wall, other potential upgrades include installing more metal detectors in campus buildings, exploring weapons detection technology, increasing police patrols and building additional security guard booths. Wilson said the anticipated total cost is more than $22 million.
While the university is now building walls to keep some outsiders from entering the facility, it previously celebrated the tearing down of a wall once meant to divide the black university from the surrounding white neighbors.
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“While the university is now building walls to keep some outsiders from entering the facility, it previously celebrated the tearing down of a wall once meant to divide the black university from the surrounding white neighbors.”
If they couldn’t reverse their earlier positions in order to satisfy their short-term desires, they might become Republicans.
Brainpower.
If you drive up York Road past the Guilford neighborhood in Balmer you will see almost every street is “one-way” pointing out. That was how they regulated the less-desirables from across the street by limiting their access to the neighborhood except at large intersections. They basically used traffic routing to set up probable cause. There is a subtle art to building walls without appearing to be building walls. Further north, the neighborhood of Ruxton petitioned to “not” get a light rail stop because it then limited people coming into their neighborhood from the rest of the city.
This is a state-owned university spending taxpayer funds.