UTC school officials plan to hear students' demands

UTC school officials plan to hear students' demands

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Utc school officials plan to meet with students.

This comes as folks continue to demand for change.

That's tonight's top local story.

Supporters converge on utc's chamberlain field friday afternoon, standing in solitary and demanding change.

Utc recent graduate karley dodson: "disarm utc pd we don't need to see cops with guns on this campus to keep us safe."

Utc junior jannah hyppolite helped organize the event.

She also started this petition sent to the school's chancellor demanding actions like disarming utc pd, divesting from police and creating a student run system for reporting racism and hate crimes.

Utc junior jannah hyppolite: "the university is an institution and it doesn't have the incentive to hold itself accountable."

The planned event just so happened to come after an allegation of possible racial profiling of with campus police.

Utc junior jannah hyppolite: "you know we get a lot of people who are like well i'm not really seeing this, i'm not really seeing that, but unfortunately we have a very fresh and clear example of utc being over policed of a black faculty member experiencing discrimination on campus."

Some organizers want action taken against the officers.

Utc recent graduate karley dodson: "i personally am calling for utc administration and police to fire those 6 officers who intimidated ms carson."

School officials say they are planning to meet with students next week to talk about students' demands.

Utc spokesperson george heddleston: "we will address their issues next week.

Their leadership and our executive leadership team at utc will be meeting with them to discuss the issues and quite frankly it's good that some of these points were brought forward because it's time to deal with them."

Hyppolite says the meeting is a start and is excited for it.

She also says if demands are not met they'll continue to fight until they get want.

Utc junior jannah hyppolite: "this is a movement.

It's not a