She said it is believed the creator or creators of the hateful graffiti made it between late April 26 and early April 27. Due to a lack of cameras over the area, “there’s no real hope of figuring out who did this hate speech,” Livingston said.

“Dr. Hall-Jones told me that the university’s policy ­– because the graffiti wall is a free speech zone specifically there for students to be able to say whatever they want – is to not paint over it,” Livingston said. “But she was fighting to get it painted over. Going against university policy with a university administration that sticks to the rules — that’s quite large. I did remind her that there’s a difference between free speech and hate speech, but I told her not to worry about it. It wasn’t a fight that she needed to fight because I was going to take care of it.”

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