“The wall would extend existing barriers by about 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) to encircle 90% of campus and effectively ‘eliminate unfettered access’”
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,”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 to encircle 90% of campus and effectively ‘eliminate unfettered access,’” Fox 5 reported, quoting President Wilson.University officials said significant security upgrades were underway before the shooting, but they’re now moving forward with more urgency.
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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