Reports Question Whether The Missouri "Poop Swastika" Actually Happened

[Federalist] – A reported incident of vandalism at Mizzou sparked university-wide protests, a boycott by the school’s 4-5 football team, and eventually the resignation of the university’s president and chancellor.

There’s only one problem: no evidence of the alleged incident, in which a poop swastika on the wall of a dormitory restroom was reported, has ever been made publicly available.

According to Billy Donley, the president of Mizzou’s Residence Halls Association (RHA), the poop swastika was reported at approximately 2:00 a.m. on October 24, 2015.

“On Saturday, October 24th, at 2:00am an individual came into one of the restrooms in Gateway Hall and drew a swastika on the wall with their own feces,” Donley wrote in a letter several days after the alleged incident. “This event happened while many students, including myself, were already asleep.”

Later in his letter, Donley noted that he only found out about the alleged vandalism incident “via a flyer posted on the walls” of the dorm.

Although Donley did not respond to repeated requests for comment prior to publication, The Federalist spoke with two RHA staffers while trying to get in touch with Donley. Neither had personally witnessed the poop swastika. When asked if there was any photographic evidence of the alleged incident, one staffer replied, “Not to my knowledge.”

Frankie Minor, the director of residential life at Mizzou, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on whether he personally saw the poop swastika or any photographic evidence of it.

Calls to the University of Missouri Police Department, which responded to and investigated the alleged poop swastika incident, also failed to yield any evidence of the poopstika.

Maj. Brian Weimer, the public information officer for the Mizzou police department, told The Federalist that he also did not personally see the poop swastika that was reported to police. When asked if anyone in the police department personally witnessed the swastika, Maj. Weimer clammed up and referred all questions about the incident to the university’s custodian of public records.

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Interesting report. Raises a fair point? Not calling anyone a liar here, just saying I’m a guy that kind of likes proof to believe something. Like maybe I’m being crazy but if you don’t actually show me a picture or police report or literally any shred of evidence whatsoever, I don’t just automatically take your word for it. I mean it’s 2015. Everyone has a camera phone and a Twitter. You’d assume a swastika drawn in human shit on the walls of a dorm (on a campus already on the brink of extreme tension) would be flying around social media and make it to the front page of CNN and the NY Times by the morning.

Instead the only picture that ever emerged of it was this –

Good news is that this should be a very easy thing for Missouri to dispel. Just grab a picture filed away somewhere in a police folder and boom, you’re good. Have the investigating officers make a statement confirming they saw it and boom, you’re good. Just have somebody in a position of power come out and speak to it. That’s all you have to do and all the hoax rumors poof, disappear. I’d rather roll that way than just have everyone insist you take their word for it, and if you don’t you’re probably a racist and probably a member of a microaggression fan club. (Although, as a Jew, I’m almost positive I’m allowed to be the most offended by a poop swastika).