Bates College in Lewiston has hired two investigators to look into an incident in which a black student was handcuffed by college security guards during a campus party last month.
In a message to the Bates community, college President Clayton Spencer said the two guards have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
In an opinion piece in the Bates student newspaper, a coalition of students calling itself Bates+Who? is demanding that the security officers be fired immediately. The group says Bates has not taken appropriate action in responding to what they say is an “incident of clear racial violence, one they say is not singular.
The headline on an earlier version of this story was incorrect. The student was handcuffed but not arrested.
