Yale backs police in ‘profiling’ call

YALE UNIVERSITY said campus officers “followed procedures” this week when a white student called police after she discovered a black student sleeping in a residence hall common area.

In an email to students Wednesday evening, Kimberly Goff-Crews, vice president of student life at Yale, said police also spoke with the student who called the police, and “admonished the complaining student that the other student had every right to be present.”

During an encounter early Tuesday morning, police spent nearly 20 minutes before they determined that Lolade Siyonbola, the young woman sleeping on a couch, was in fact a Yale student.